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long live the carp! The member from Albany answered his own 
question. He lays the blame for such things upon the scientist, 
but he forgets, perhaps, that the present administration of the 
New York Fish Commission is only about three years old, and he 
is whipping some very much older scientists over the shoulders 
of the able men who represent New York at present. You might 
just as well attempt to blame us Christians for not preventing 
the crucifixion ; but we were not born soon enough. 
President: It is like a great many cases of death in a great 
many parts of the country, the doctor was called in too late. We 
have got them today and they will do work no other fish ean. 
Mr. Lydell: We have got carp and whitefish and black bass 
in one pound in the Mill Creek station and they are all doing 
very well. 
Mr. P. G. Zalsman of Paris, Mich.: Of course in respect to 
putting them in small streams: I deliver rainbow trout some- 
times to a farmer and the fisherman says: ‘Where are those fish 
going?” “TI don’t know.” “If I knew who was going to put 
them in such and such a stream I would kill him before he got 
there. We do not want the rainbow trout in these streams.” 
Mr. Meehan: ‘There are certain places where they call the 
brown trout, California rainbow trout. I discovered that recent- 
ly. People did not want the California trout in a certain county, 
and when I went there a few days ago a man showed me a fish 
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which he called a “Californian” but it was a brown trout. 
President: There is some prejudice against the rainbow 
trout in Michigan but I think it is uncalled for. It is a differ- 
ent fish, of course, from the brook trout but at the same time, as 
far as we can observe, it does no harm in the same stream as 
brook trout. Whether it will do any good or not is another 
question. 
Mr. Meehan: We have found no trouble with rainbow trout 
as far as destroying other trout is concerned. But apparently 
they do not propagate very well in the stream. 
Mr. Nevin: Rainbow trout do not do very well in small 
streams, but do well in the larger rivers. 
