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the Carp in America, one importanl facl remains unassailed. 

 Thai, fish is now thoroughly established in our waters, and 

 is here to slay. It is now in demand as a market fish. 

 The annua] catch about ten years ago was as Follows: 



POUND! woiiiii 



The Mississippi Riverand tributaries (1903) 13,370,346 $278,565 



The Great Lakes (1903) I 537,643 71,285 



Interior waters (1900 08) 1,016,129 12,029 



17,524,118 $361,879 



To-day the testimony of I he* United Stales Fish Com- 

 missioner is as follows (1914): 



'While fly fishermen still have do words of praise for the 

 Carp, the fish consumer has a different attitude, in view of 

 the fact that the Carp Imported from Germany has become 

 the most widely distributed and most important fish in the 

 interior waters of the United States. The catch at this time 

 probably exceeds 50,000,000 pounds annually. A great <\<-n\ 

 more has been expected of the Carp than was ever claimed 



for it by Professor Baird, and, as yon know, the fish was 



planted in waters Lo which it was entirely unadapted. For 

 the warm, sluggish, turbid waters of Hie great central see- 

 lion of the country, where the Carp has taken firmest hold 

 and become most abundant, this fish has few superiors." 

 (HughM. Sn.iiji.j 



Minnows. No common fishes of our country, it is safe 

 to say, are so little understood, or so generally misunderstood, 

 as those classed under the above name. To most persons, a 

 "Minnow" is a liny young fish, from I to '-> inches in length, 

 useful only as bail for bass and oilier fishes. 



