FISH FARMING: 



FOR 



PLEASURE AND PROFIT. 



CHAPTEE I. 

 INTRODUCTORY. 



Throughout a long and closely applied experience of fish- 

 ing and fish-culture in the British Isles I have repeatedly 

 been impressed by the enormous importanca of the results 

 awaiting the practical cultivation in this country of many 

 hundreds of miles of stream amcl river and thousands of acres 

 of lakes that at present lie waste ; and I have again and again 

 marvelled at the utterly neglected possibilities that present 

 themselves in almost endless; varietv and on almost every side 

 for the formation of fisheries. There are very few 1 existing 

 fisheries that could not be considerably improved, more espe- 

 cially in the direction of the proper protection of natural redds 

 i.e., spawning grounds or the construction and protection 

 of artificial! redds: and there are streams and brooks on nearly 

 every estate that at little expense, by the simple construction 

 of a dam here and there, and the erection of a few sluices and 

 screens, could be transformed into capital trout ponds, if not, 

 indeed, valuable sporting lakes. As a matter of fact, nearly 



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