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it on the table; there are places even where they enjoy it as a 
game fish to catch with hook and line. ‘The United States Bur- 
eau of Fisheries continues to receive applications for carp, which, 
owing to this feeling in certain sections of the country and 
among the influential classes of sportsmen perhaps, are not dis- 
tributed any longer; the people who have asked for them then 
refuse to take any other fish in many instances, and are often 
quite indignant because they cannot have the carp. Some of 
them persist until they find out where they can secure the carp, 
and take them to their own private ponds. But all through the 
west there are waters that can be made very useful by the intro- 
duction of the carp, and which otherwise are practically unpro- 
ductive. I think I have told this story once, before the society, 
but I will tell it again. When I was president of a fish and 
game association, all of the members sportsmen, some of them 
commissioners from the New England states, others commission- 
ers of fisheries from Canada, 224 in number, we sat down to a 
table on one occasion and ate carp under the name of baked red 
snapper; most of them knew they were not eating baked red 
snapper; some of the old lake fishermen told me they thought 
they were eating white fish; another one said pike-perch; all 
declared them delicious. “As you know, a rose would smell as 
sweet by any other name.” 
Mr. Meehan: You must have had Rhine wine sauce. 
(Laughter. ) 
Dr. Smith: Mr Meehan has given us an interesting ac- 
count of the wonderful amount of work a state can do in one 
short year, but it appears to me that he has accomplished too 
much, and that it would be better if three-quarters of that work 
could be turned over to states that now do nothing. But our 
admiration for the Pennsylvania Fish Commissioner and for 
Pennsylvania fish work does not. extend to his black bass, more 
especially to the small mouth variety; for a black bass (and a 
small mouth black bass in particular) that would be disturbed in 
the shghtest degree by a carp, is not worthy of further considera- 
tion. (Laughter. ) 
Mr. Miller: A friend of mine while standing on a bridge 
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