THE CARP MMAO3 
It Is recognized by all scientific persons that water fowl 
and game fish will disappear from our lakes and streams unless 
water plants on which they rely either directly or indirectly for 
their food supply are available. In a recent issue of the Isaac 
Walton League magazine "Outdoor America" it was stated In an 
editorial that questions of bag limit, open season, size of fish 
which can be cau-ht and many other matters which are given a 
great deal of attention by the members of the legislature, local 
Rod and Gun Clubs and a large army of interested individuals are 
of no avail unless the plant life of our lakes and          is 
sifficient in character and quantity to provide the necessary 
food supply. 
 
That we have a serious problem in our local lakes in    V 
preserving desirable water plant life no one can deny.  During 
the twenty years that I have been familiar with the local lakes 
I have seen the rus    and water lilies, which on some of the 
lakes extended out from the shore for as much as two hundred yards, 
entirely disappear, We have seen beds of wild celery on our lakes 
with a leaf growth so luxuriant that it was practically impossible 
to rowa bat through it, entirely disappear. I have alse seen 
piles of wild celery plants and buds washed up on the shore In 
such quantities that with a pitchfork it was easy to obtain a 
large rowboat load in traveling along the shor for a distance of 
not exceed fifty yards. What are the agencies producing this 
condition? This is vlhat we want to know and must know in order t 
properly understand our problem* 
In the past the whole problem of oontbolling the carp 
has been mixed up with the question of whether game fish are in. 
jured or destroyed in the process of seining oarp and also 
 
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