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<br />Historical <br />accounts of <br />upper basin <br />endangered <br />fish <br /> <br />16 <br /> <br /> <br />Photo by Fred Quartarone <br />As a boy, Green River, Wyo., resident Carl Gaensslen caught <br />endangered fish and sold them to Green River restaurants <br />and townspeople. During his interview, Gaensslen wryly stat- <br />ed, 'We fished for living.' <br /> <br />way in. We'd come walking through town with them. <br />"Now we also sold the whitefish (Colorado squawfish) although they were <br />pretty good - the big ones. One of those big ones in there we sold to a Negro <br />family. Sometimes we'd get 25 cents for them for a fish 12 to 14 inches long, <br />some of them would give you quarter, or a half a dollar, you didn't have any set <br />price. " <br />Carl Williams (Green River, Wyo.) also found a market for his river fish at <br />Green River's two Chinese Restaurants: "That's how us kids got our spending <br />money. They had two Chinese cafes, we used to sell fish to them. Summer time <br />we'd sell fish and the winter time we sold rabbits and pigeons." <br /> <br />Fish fries <br />An article in the Winter 1991 edition of the Journal of the Western Slope <br />referred to a fish fry held at Lorna, Colo., in an article titled, "Hard Times but <br />Good Times: Grand Junction Women During the Great Depression": <br /> <br />Fall Fish Fry <br />"Politics and red ants killed the Fall Fish Fry held for many years at <br />Horsethief Canyon. Farmers went to the river on a Saturday and <br />with either four or six boats they hung nets between each pair of <br />