Wild Carp
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Re: Wild Carp
In 1831 the common carp was introduced to America. It was then distributed by the American government as a food fish in the 1900's.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Izaak Walton
Re: Wild Carp
Great catch Gary
Thanks Kingfisher, hadn't read it that far yet. Seems the U.S. government had a huge (by the trainload) stocking program from 1877-1897 from fish originally brought in from Germany. I did find mention of there being two varieties of carp coming out of Germany at the time, Bohemian and Galician.
https://archive.org/stream/notesonfishc ... 1/mode/2up p.321-322
Thanks Kingfisher, hadn't read it that far yet. Seems the U.S. government had a huge (by the trainload) stocking program from 1877-1897 from fish originally brought in from Germany. I did find mention of there being two varieties of carp coming out of Germany at the time, Bohemian and Galician.
https://archive.org/stream/notesonfishc ... 1/mode/2up p.321-322
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Re: Wild Carp
That's a very interesting read. How on earth did you find it?
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Izaak Walton
Re: Wild Carp
I went to the library of congress website, and searched using keywords like fishery, carp, stocking etc. the results could then be filtered by years and type of media
here are a couple of interesting ones I found there as well
https://archive.org/stream/historyofcar ... 2/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/fishinginame ... 7/mode/2up
here are a couple of interesting ones I found there as well
https://archive.org/stream/historyofcar ... 2/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/fishinginame ... 7/mode/2up