CONTENTS. XV11 



CHAPTEE IX. 



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ON SMALLER PONDS 159 



The filthy State of our Fish Ponds ItiO 



The Use of Weeds in Ponds 161 



How Ponds should be Fished 162 



On the Formation of Ponds 163 



The best Fish and their Proportions for Ponds .... 164 



The Growth of Fish in Mr. Maltby's Ponds 165 



Roach objectionable in Carp Ponds 167 



Eels objectionable in Ponds 169 



The Destructiveness of Swans 170 



Their ravenous Taste for Fish Spawn 172 



The Perch in Ponds 173 



The Spiegel Carp 174 



Pike in Ponds and Lakes 175 



Bream in Ponds and Lakes 176 



Salmon Fry and Smolts in Ponds 177 



CHAPTER X. 



OUR SEA FISHERIES 178 



Bounties on Herrings, and their Advantage ib. 



Absence of Information with regard to Sea Fisheries . . 180 



The case of the Newfoundland Fisheries 181 



Depression of the Irish Fisheries 188 



The Encouragement afforded to the French Fisheries . . 191 



The Rockall Fishing Station 192 



The Herring Fishery 202 



Statistics of the Herring Fishery 203 



The Scotch Fishery Board and Glasgow Merchants . . 204 



Difference between Sprats and Herrings 208 



Interest felt by other Nations in their Fisheries . . . 209 



Injury to Fisheries from Shrimp Nets 210 



Trawling Boundaries in Ireland 212 



Poison from Mining Operations Prejudicial 214 



Encroachments of French Fishermen 215 



Practice of the French towards our Fishing Boats . . . 217 



Formation of Oyster Beds 220 



American Oysters, Clams, &c 222 



Cultivation of other Crustacea 223 



The Lagune of Commachio 223 



The Lucrine Lake and Lake Fusaro 224 



Proceedings of the French at the He de Re" 226 



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