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make excellent bait for pickerel and pike, living for hours on the 

 hook. They can be kept "in a rain barrel all summer without 

 change of water." 



The hardiness of this fish and its willing endurance of con- 

 ditions fatal to most species give it a predominance in our 

 waters, which, combined with its numbers, activity, voracity, 

 and wide range of food, make it, on the whole, a dangerous and 

 destructive enemy to our fisheries. The time will doubtless 

 come when thoroughgoing measures will be taken to keep down 

 to the lowest practicable limit the dogfish and the gars as 

 useless and destructive in our productive waters as wolves and 

 foxes formerly were in our pastures and poultry-yards. 



