Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-03-24
ILLEGAL
rs DESTRUCTION OF FISH IN THE
TRUCkEE WHILE OFFICERS
ARE INACi I'VE

The people of Reno and vicinity
are forfeiting great heritage" said
visitor at a prominent notel yester-
day, lin permitting the slaughter of
trout in the rruckee river.
In the beautiful stream that ira
verses this fertile garden spot nature
has planted pleasure for the sporl 5
man and satisfaction for the epicure.
In no other waters on The face of
the globe can be found trOIt just like
those whose habitat is the Truckee
river and the lakes that are its source
anu its outlet
No gamer gsh ever took a hook
and gave battle for nis life: no finer
mOrsel derived from the tinny tribe
ever graced the table of a king.
AT this time ruckee river trout
is all but a drug on the market in Re-
no anu doubtless finds a place on the
menu of the first-class hotels all ov
er the Pacific coast and on Pullman
diners and ocean steamers.
On the local streets these magl:,
fic1nt fish are for sale literally 10y
the wagon load. and, according to the
local papers. the catch for the half
dozen days since the opening of the
season has Deen two tons per day.
THAT weight of fish, if caught with
hook and line, would keep ,Tvry NAL,
inhabitant of Reno busy fishing from
sunrise to sunset But that fact does
not seem to impress the citizens OF
the city. They do not seem to realize
that such a daily eaten of fish involv-
as slaughter and that slaughter is
necessarily violation of the law.
The United States government is
one nrst vioatOr of the law-bOtn of
nature and state-in maintaining
that impossible barrier to trout. the
Derby dam where the trout are trap
ped on the way to their spawning
grounds until the pools below have
become mass of trout.
The few fish that manage to
pass that dam have to encounter 9th
ers. not so bad. but not adequately
provided with fish ladders.
1T strikes stranger like me,
coming from a country where fishing
is not so good as here, but is jealous
ly guarded, that the evils have en-
nuemated are sufficient to be intOler-
able. But they do not begin to rep
resent the methods of fish extinction,
employed.
"As have laid. no such amount of
trout as is coming to market could
be legally THAT is with hook and
mass of game fish daily landed? |
don't know
But his | DO know: There are
trout on the market of which there is
mark of hook in neither mouth or
body. The conclusion is inevitable
that in the pools created by the gov
ernment dam fish are netted, and that
on the rifles and rapids connecting
them. fish are trapped.
These are practices that make the
spOrtSmen blood boil; practices that
will spoil one OF the greatest fishing
streams in the world and eXtermin
ate a fish that is Incompatible for ia
bic purposes. There ar, laws pro
hibiting these practices, and officers
of the law sworn to their enforce
ment. Why dOn's the officers of Re
no and WashOe county see to it that
their officers perform their duties?'
journal.
the state police should be ordered
to patrol the Truckee river without
delay and to arrest any person taking
fish illegally. At tie Derby dam the
trout are dubbed Speare and killed
in an sorts OF ways.