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The law of the land should know no favorites
and there should be no exceptions to its opera
tion.
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\ W FISH
ny FUI.TON LOVELL
"'reclor, Georgia Game and Fish Commission
THE BIG KILL
TWO factors combine to make the rough fish eradication
program on Lakes Worth and Blackshear a significant
landmark in the history of fish management in Georgia.
The first of these is the fact that the
chemical treatment of an entire water
■ ! shed—never before attempted by anyone
| —is entirely possible. Secondly, the pro
-1 j ject that gizzard shad can be chemically
id* wiped out with little damage to game fish
J j A total of 900,000 pounds of shad were elimi-
Mfe'. K. 1 nated from both lakes, the Flint river and Mucka
jfj Jr 1 leo and Kinchafonee creeks. Rampant loss of
jjVj A w game fish, an item feared by sportsmen, did not
181 /■ . JOMM occur. Post treatment surveys revealed that only
niton Lor ail three percent of the total kill was game fish.
There has been a great change in Lakes
Worth and Blackshear. They look strangely placid without mas
sive schools of shad around to muss up the water. Their surface
in no longer without fishermen and their fishermen are no longer
without fish on their stringers. *
Both Lake Blackshear and Lake Worth are on the way back. The
reason for it is the elimination of gizzard shad during the Game and
Rah Commission’s eradication program conducted last fall.
The program was suggested after many population studies proved
without doubt that excessive numbers of gizzard shad was responsible
for decline in sport fishing success. There have been other major rough
fish eradication programs that exceeded the acreage of the Blackshear-
Worth project. None of these, however, were as ambitious as tackling
an entire watershed, some 15,000 surface acres of water. The Texas
Game and Fish Department's treatment of Possum Kingdom lake
amounted to a total of 16,000 acres and Florida’s Lake Apopka, all
50,000 acres of it, were “big” undertakings. But neither job encom
passed a watershed.
Since the Georgia work dealt with the swift Flint River and Mucka
lee and Kinchafoonee rreeks, many problems became apparent as the
project progressed. The major concern was evenly distributing the
chemical in the allotted six hours time. To do this, both reservoirs
wore divided into working zones and a crew assigned to each zone. Each
crew was responsible for distributing the rotenone in its zone during
the six hour period.
A total of 600 gallons of rotenone was distributed in Lake
Worth and the Flint below the Crisp County Power Dam. It took
3.600 gallons to properly saturate I.ake Blackshear and its back
waters.
Since gizzard shad have proven more susceptible to rotenone than
game species, a lighter concentration was used. A solution containing
only .12 parts per million is all that was needed to accomplish the job.
However, where the concentration became heavy, due to current, some
game fish and catfish, carp and gar were eliminated.
Rotenone was chosen for the job to keep from severely disturbing
the game fish populations. It has proven successful in research
projects of similar nature in almost all areas of the country. An
extract from roots, the deadly chemical has been used by natives of
Asia and South America to kill fish for many years. It was not until
J'Wff, though, that scientists discovered the chemical and it became
a ...—Me for public use.
After receiving complaints from sportsmen in the Albany and
Ccrdele areas about the decline in fishing, fishery biologists con
ducted poptila'ion surveys on both Lake Worth and Lake Black
shear. The results revealed an overpopulation of large gizzard
shad, which created a nunhealthy situation for game species.
With the cooperation of the local people, the Game and Fish Com
mission embarked upon a program to eradicate the shad and hoped,
ultimately, to restore fishing in the area to its proper place of promi
nence. The program probably would never have got its feet off the
ground had it not been for the eagerness of local citizens, whose fiery
energy helped obtain permission from landowners and assistance with
the job itself.
Plans are underway to introduce two new species of fish in
both reservoirs. Preliminary investigative research indicate that
both will support white bass, a relatively new fish in the state,
and threadfin shad, a forage fish. Threadfins differ from gizzard
shad in that they seldom grow over six inches long and serve as
food for carnivorous fish for a lifetime. Gizzard shad, on the
other hand, may attain a sire as large as four or five pounds
and offer no return for their keeping in sport fishing.
In addition to white bass, fishery biologists are confident that
other game fish populations will soon achieve the proper size and
growth and that fishing in Lake Worth and Blackshear will return
to normal. *
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Big’ words fool a lot of people, but not as
many as some think.
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OPPONENTS OF MY pro
posed constitutional amendment
to restore state and local control
over public schools conjured up
some absurd bogeymen in testify
ing against it.
jjgjW&K They con-
I i tendc ; d , that it
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f out ” a p art r,f
I *r’; '**’* : the Fourteenth
iiA I Amendment,
Mi that it would
nullify present
flh SHUSH safeguards of
tjaffßar& ar. Mjffl religious free
dom and separation of church and
state and that it would open the
door to lowered standards, capri
cious regulations, restricted edu
cational opportunities and all
manner of fancied racial, reli
gious and economic discrimina
tion. They further maintained
that Congress did not mean what
it said when it granted “exclusive
control” over schools to the last
12 states admitted to the Union.
• • •
THEY IGNORED THE pre
ponderant historical evidence that
the framers of the Fourteenth
Amendment did not intend that it
should apply to the field of edu
cation and they completely dis
counted the fact that the pro
visions of the various state
constitutions afford ample pro
tection against infringement upon
religious liberty and any relax
ation of the doctrine of separation
of church and state.
The argument that educa
tional standards would be
jeopardized by the adoption of
the Talmadge School Amend
ment is a gross insult to the
intelligence, vision, aspirations
and humanity of all Americans
and is of itself an admission of
those advancing it that they
desire absolute federal control
over all facets of education.
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Under their philosophy, the
me? ng of the Fourteenth
Amendment could be distorted
not only to give the Supreme
Court authority to decree who
shall attend what school but
also to determine the number
of teachers for each school, the
amount of salaries they shall
receive and the scope of the
curricula and the content of the
textbooks taught.
While it is granted that the
Supreme Court which has substi
tuted books on sociology and
psychology for law books as the
basis for its rulings has not
passed on the statehood acts in
question, it cannot be denied that
there is no more convincing proof
than their school provisions of the
intent of Congress that the Fed
eral Government should never
interfere with the operation of
public schools by the individual
states. /n
• • •
IT IS MORE than coincidence
that those who advanced these
arguments are the same individ
uals who would force others to
comply with their personal no
tions of sociology regardless of
the consequences.
The American people will have
degenerated to a sad state in
deed when, as these persons main
tained, the Supreme Court and its
strained interpretations of the
Fourteenth Amendment are the
only remaining deterrents to dis
crimination and inferior educa
tion in this country.
Fortunately for the nation, the
American people do not have so
low an opinion of their conscience,
sense of justice and fair play and
ability to manage their own af
fairs as do some of their de
tractors on the national scene.
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