NATURAL BREEDING POUNDS 107 



attend to them, but the advantages to the fish are so 

 great as to be deemed well worth this expense. The 

 surplus current of the river runs over a weir to the 

 right-hand side of these pounds above the upper 

 i.e., the most distant boundary seen in this view; 

 the keepers are shown as standing on the lower boundary 

 of the pound. The fine wire screens can be seen if this 

 plate is carefully examined. 



The dangers of floods and of the blocking of these 

 screens are reduced to a minimum. Immediately 

 below these screens are kept the 12-inch fish, which 

 thus get the full force of the stream and become very 

 strong and vigorous. 



Plate XVII. shows the pound some 200 yards in 

 length devoted to two-year-old fish, the natural 

 advantages of which must be apparent even to the tyro. 



Plate XVIII. shows the home stretch devoted to 

 8-inch fish. At the lower end, near the hatcheries, 

 the river is divided into three other pounds, into 

 which the stock fish are drafted during the breeding 

 season, and others in which certain drafts of fish are 

 kept prior to being dispatched to their final destination 

 in some other water. 



On the lower side, carefully screened, are situated 

 innumerable small canals, into which the river water 

 is directed, and in these the varying classes of fry of 

 the brown and rainbow trout are reared. It is, of 

 course, in these lower breeding ditches that there is 

 the problematical danger of flooding. Mr. G. R. 

 Bryant, the present proprietor, whose house is seen 



