42 On Stocking. 



Yearlings can find their own food in any new 

 water if it is not over-stocked. Practically they 

 may be appropriately used in every case where 

 they are not exposed to predatory fish or birds ; 

 and even then it becomes a question involving a 

 delicate calculation, whether or not it is cheaper 

 to increase the number of yearlings transplanted, 

 so as to discount the loss, or to incur the expense 

 of two-year-olds. Generally, yearlings should be 

 used wherever the water is unsuited to fry. 



There are many hill lochs which can be stocked 

 by yearlings, and by nothing else, where there is 

 little or no feeding stream, or where the feeding 

 stream is too rapid or too rocky to suit fry, and 

 where the difficulty of access forbids the tanks 

 necessary to carry two-year-olds being brought 

 within a reasonable distance of the water. 



There are many lowland ponds which can be 

 stocked with yearlings more satisfactorily and 

 more economically than by any other description 

 of fish the number of yearlings being propor- 

 tioned to the capacity of the water, and the risks 

 inevitable from birds and large fish. 



There are many rivers where two-year-olds 

 would wander to stiller water, and where fry 

 would have little chance of survival but where 

 yearlings would give for many years after the 

 stocking a good account of themselves. 



And there are many ponds all over the country 



