AMATEUR FISH CULTURE 



this fact alone proves that fish culture must 

 have progressed to a very advanced stage as a 

 science. 



This advance has in very many, if not in the 

 majority of cases, been made by the bitter ex- 

 perience gained through failures and mishaps, 

 for these have led fish culturists to try many 

 different means to prevent mischances, or to 

 rectify them if they have happened. Some of 

 the most serious difficulties experienced by the 

 early fish culturists who bred Salmonidce can 

 now be almost disregarded, for they hardly exist 

 for the modern fish culturist, with the know- 

 ledge he possesses of the experience of others. 



So much of what has been done in fish culture 

 is generally known to those who have studied 

 and practised it, that the beginner can nowadays 

 commence far ahead of the point whence the first 

 fish culturists started. Many of his difficulties 

 have been overcome for him already, and though 

 he will not, of course, meet with the success of 

 the man of experience, still he ought with the 

 exercise of an average amount of intelligence to 

 avoid such failures as would completely disgust 

 him. 



There are many pieces of water containing 

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