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Amateur Fish Culture

Chapter 36: On Plain and Peak
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A practical manual for small-scale fish culture offering step-by-step guidance on stocking waters, selecting suitable species and sites, and building and managing hatching trays, rearing boxes, and ponds. It concentrates on Salmonidae—especially trout—detailing artificial spawning, care of ova, alevins and fry, feeding schedules, thinning, and turning out yearlings, and it considers rainbow and brook trout and char. The text also addresses enemies, disease, and remedies, treatments for coarse fish, and includes technical plans, apparatus suggestions, and practical tips aimed at the amateur fish culturist.

Trout, collecting wild ova of, 20
ova, management of, 20, 34-9

Turning fry out of rearing box, 51-2
out yearlings, 68-9

Varnishing wood, importance of, 33, 50

Vegetation, aquatic, importance of, 7
aquatic, development of, 9
importance of, at water side, 19
on banks of water, 9, 19
round rearing ponds, 32, 55

Water-boatman, 10, 64
beetles, 11, 58-60, 63
bugs, 63-4
celery, 13
cress, 13
crowfoot, 13
flea, 12, 48
lilies, 13
lobelia, 13
louse, 65
scorpion, 64
starwort, 13

Weeds, importance of, in waters, 7
planting in ponds, 7
in streams, 8

Willow round rearing ponds, 32, 55
at water side, 19

Windermere char, 78

Yearling trout, 56

Yearlings, feeding of, 67
removal of, from rearing pond, 70
separating, 68
turning out, 68-9

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