G28 EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [162] 



The carp fisheries in small stock ponds differ from those described 

 above merely by the circumstance tliat they are often carried on with 

 only one boat and a seine, and by employing fewer tubs and other ap- 

 paratus and a smaller number of men. As for the rest, the method 

 pursued is exactly the same. The inimber of j)ersons and the quantity 

 of apparatus needed should, however, not be calculated according to 

 the proportion of the yield exj)ected to the quantity of apparatus, &c., 

 used for a certain given yield, i. e., one should not calculate in the fol- 

 lowing manner : If for fishing a pond area of 300 hectares, or the taking 

 of 70,000 pounds of fish, I need 20 tubs or 50 fishermen, &c., I will for 

 an expected yield of 10,000 i)ounds need one-seventh the number of tubs 

 and fishermen. In the latter case, not 3 but 15 tubs will be needed to 

 expedite business, viz., one for the large pike, one for the small jnke, 

 two for sorting the tench, one for inferior kinds of fish, one for other 

 fish which are to be sorted, and nine for the carp. Two to three men 

 should be employed in sorting the fish, and two for cleaning them and 

 for renewing the water in the tubs. For the fisheries i)roper 20 persons 

 will not be too many, and to these should be added a number of women, 

 corresponding to the distance between the fish-pit and the kegs. The 

 number of wagons will be determined by the quantity of fish put in each 

 keg, and by the distance which these wagons have to travel ; also by the 

 circumstance whether these wagons can return to the jjonds before the 

 fisheries are over and thus take another load, or whether one trip is 

 all they can accomplish. In the latter case, and counting 400 pounds 

 of fish per keg — therefore 800 per wagon — an expected yield of 10,000 

 pounds would require 13 wagons, or, better still, a few more, as the 

 yield can never be accurately calculated beforehand. If a wagon can 

 make two or three trips, only one-half or one-third the number of wagons 

 is required. The quantity of apparatus and the number of wagons and 

 men needed for one pond can only be determined with any degree of 

 accuracy after fisheries have taken place in it once. 



In the raising pond fisheries the weighing process is dispensed with, 

 and no tubs are needed for inferior kinds of* fish. The number of tubs 

 will, therefore, be determined by the quantity of fish with which the 

 pond was stocked. Allowing for their being assorted in two or three 

 classes, comparatively few tubs will be needed, and for a small pond 

 two to three will often sufllice. It will be well, however, always to have 

 in readiness an extra tub for inferior fish. As regards the weighing, 

 it will be sufficient lo weight 100 of each class in two or four divisions, 

 and on this basis to calculate the average weight of the entire class. 

 This weighing will consume but very little time. The same applies to 

 spawning ponds. Care should, however, be taken to have on hand the 

 required dii)-nets or other measures for ascertaining the quantity of fry 

 ^^ncl to have the sorting- vans covered with linen cloth. 



