Fish and Fishing 



from large fish), but the shorter the distance 

 trout of any size have to travel the better. 



To hatch the eggs, they may be placed on a 

 gravelly shallow in the brook or stream, in a foot 

 of water or less, and covered with a piece of fine 

 wire netting. They should be ordered to be sent 

 just at the point of hatching, so that they will 

 hatch out in a couple of days. 



The fry will look after themselves. Floods are 

 a standing danger to this plan. Fry, unless bred 

 in enormous quantities, are very little use in riv- 

 ers which already contain feeders on fish, like 

 eels, catfish, suckers, carp, pickerel, and perch. 

 A stream, however small, which runs into a pond 

 affords every convenience for hatching out the 

 ova and rearing the fry. The pond should be 

 cleared of other fish, and the outlet carefully 

 guarded with very fine perforated 

 zinc to prevent the escape of the fry. 

 Some slight preparation is advisable in the 

 stream. The simplest thing to do is merely to lay 

 the eyed ova on a suitable shallow (where the 

 water is four to eight inches in depth, and flows 

 gently), cover them with fine-meshed wire netting, 

 fixed a few inches above the surface of the water, 

 and leave them. It is advisable to cover over the 

 whole of the brook, from your trench to the pond, 

 with netting, to save the fry from kingfishers, 

 herons, etc. 



But all streams are subject to floods, and the 

 safest way to deal with the ova is to prej)are a 

 trench for them by the side of, and fed by the 

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