CHAPTER II 

 STOCKING WATERS WITH FOOD 



IT may seem somewhat superfluous to say that 

 fish cannot live in any water unless that 

 water contains the food supply necessary for them 

 to thrive upon, and yet this is the point most 

 often overlooked in stocking waters with fish. 

 Small attempts at stocking with creatures suit- 

 able for food, particularly after the fish have been 

 already introduced, are not at all likely to suc- 

 ceed. Such an important matter when treated as 

 a small afterthought is almost sure to end in 

 failure of the whole business of stocking. 



But a small amount of thought will convince 

 any one that in order that there may be a suffi- 

 cient amount of animal life in a water, there 

 must be an adequate vegetable life, for weeds are 

 almost always necessary to the well-being of the 

 creatures which serve as food for fishes. 



In the case of a pond it is generally fairly easy 

 to introduce a good stock of suitable weeds. The 



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