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urban residents caught them in vary- ing amounts for consumption. Urban resident Carl Gaensslen (Green River, Wyo.) explained when he would do much of his fishing. "Well, I went (fishing) almost every Sunday," he said. "The family went on a picnic or something up the river or down the river, and so we'd fish with my dad and my brother. And then at other times, kids that were in school with me, grade school and that, maybe a half a dozen kids around town, I fished with." Gaensslen's family fishing story was indicative of what many urban residents reported. Bennett Young (Palisade, Colo.) remembered going to the "government dam" above Palisade in the 1930s on weekends with his family. "Well if you'd go up on the weekend you'd have to go up in the horse and wagon or Model T going up there. You had a hard time getting out on the piers and getting a seat to snag suckers," Young said. "It'd be full of people. Yeah, you'd have a lot of people going up. Transportation was the main thing, to get up there. Yeah, my folks used to go up there, and we made an all day trip out of it. "It was nothing to go up and get a gunny sack full of suckers up at the dam by snagging. We'd sit on the wall and have a three-point hook, you know, a tre- ble hook with a heavy weight and just set there and snag them. There was no limit on them just ... they were just laying in there. "They used them (suckers). They didn't throw them away. They were used for food and fertilizer and things like that, you see. We planted young peach trees and put a sucker in there ....put the peach tree right on the sucker." Lawrence Hastings (Green River, Utah) remembered Green River residents visiting their farm to harvest fish. "There used to be a lot of these humpbacks and the regular suckers. They would make their regular runs to spawn," he said. "They would go up there through the wheel pit and there was a wad of them at that time. People would come up here and get them by the washtub full. We didn't use them, but other people did. They'd take them home and can them." Photo courtesy of Wendell Johnson Kenneth Johnson and a Colorado squawfish caught in his family's metal fish trap. Other uses for endangered fish Lyndon Granat (Palisade, Colo.) remembered people feeding Colorado squawfish to pigs. "Farmers that lived along the river there, they'd catch some big ones there on the Colorado above ... between Grand Junction and Palisade there. They'd go Uses of endangered fish 21