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across the course of a rapid river, such as the Itchen, 

 of course require most careful and constant attention, 

 it being one man's work to attend to them, but the 

 advantages to the fish are so great as to be deemed well 

 worth this expense. The river is deviated 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 the blocking of these screens 

 are reduced to a minimum. Immediately below these screens 

 are kept the twelve inch fish, who thus get the full force 

 of the stream and become very strong and vigorous. 



Plate XX. shows this 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 XXI. shows the home stretch devoted to eight 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 innumerable small canals, carefully 

 screened, are situated, 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 



