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Show 'Reservoir Cleared of Common Fish Thousands of carp lay dead at the Minersville reservoir Monday, due to the rapid decrease in water there. The fish began dying Saturday as the water decreased to less than six inches in depth in the lower part of the reservoir, which could be entirely drained in less than 24 hours if the gates were opened a little. The Delta Land and Water com-.pany, com-.pany, under the direction of F. B. Robinson, immediately set men to wark to haul the dead fish away and five hayrack loads were removed Sunday. The shallow water still remaining in the resei-voir was covered with the floating fish and the small coves j were chocked with large ones. The ; canal leading out from the reservoir j which crosses the Beaver-Milford j highway contained thousands of dead fish. The dead fish ranged from finger-lings finger-lings to specimens more than 36 inches long and weighed more than 20 pounds. A few suckers were found, and although trout have often been planted by the county fish and game club in this water, no dead trout were seen. The reservoir is as' low at the present pres-ent time as it has ever been before. In 1928 and in 1931 the water was so low there that it was thought that every fish in the water perished at that time. Since then trout have been planted in the hope that the body of water might become a fishing resort. The carp have come into the water from various ponds above the reservoir reser-voir and were so numerous that the few thousand trout fingerlings dumped into the water probably were easy prey for the carp. If the place can be entirely freed of carp it may be possible to plant trout in the water next spring and in time produce a first class fishing resort. |