Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1898 — The Fish Industry. [ARTICLE]

The Fish Industry.

State Fish Commissioner Sweeney filed bis annual report with the governor yesterday. He thinks the state is pursuing a short-sight-ed policy in not properly taking care of her fish interests. He argues that Indiana has 300,000 acres of water which ought to be made to produce $15,000,000 annually. He cites the fish pond of Carl G. Thompson, of Warren, which although but 50x120 feet, and stocked in May, 1895, with but a few fish, has already yielded fish to the value of SIOO. This, it is argued, is at the rate of S6OO per acre.