CHAPTER V 

 CAEP CULTUEE 



HAD it not been for over-enthusiasm carp 

 farming would probably now be a very large and 

 valuable industry in the United States, and the 

 fish generally regarded with friendly eyes. In- 

 stead, it is undoubtedly the most execrated and 

 unjustly accused fish swimming in American 

 waters. 



The introducers of the German carp have been 

 likened to Benedict Arnold. Many men have advo- 

 cated laws putting a bounty on the death of the fish 

 with a view to its extermination. Pennsylvania, in 

 order to prevent its increase, carried in its statute 

 books for a time a law imposing a heavy fine on any 

 person who planted carp in any of the waters of that 

 state. 



There is not a fish-crime on the calendar that has 

 not been charged against the German carp; some 

 rightly, many more wrongly. It is accused of being 



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