28 FISH FARMING : 



association thait rents the sporting rights of it, purchase from 

 some commercial fish-farm, or obtain from some other water 

 on the Peter v. Paul principle, ai number of fish-eggs, fry, 

 yearlings, or two-year-olds, and, casting them in, consider they 

 have stocked their water. And so' they may harve done ; but 

 it is fair more probable that they have done nothing of the 

 sort. Most of the seed thus sown falls on barren ground. If 

 it is proposed to sow fish-eggs I have shown how the ground 

 must be prepared. If it is 4 proposed to plant fish the ground 



A PROTECTED, OR SCREENED, RIVER. 



needs equally careful preparation. Consider what can be 

 done by screening off a. length of water, as shown in the next 

 photograph, which is a view 001 the river at Mr. H. H. 

 Gray's fishery at Hyde End, Brimpton, Berks., and 

 therein rearing yearlings to the two-year-old stage ; and 

 surely I am not to be told that this is a difficult 

 or costly operation ! Yet yearlings are again and again placed 

 haphazard in unprotected rivers and expected to> produce good 

 results, although want of food will polish one-third of them 

 off and cannibalism account for yet another third of their 



