CHAPTER VI 



PISCICULTURE AND A FEW REMARKS ON THE NATURAL 

 HISTORY OF THE TROUT. 



Cultivation of trout Consideration when breeding The description 

 of a Trout Fishery The Itchen as a Trout Stream Relative 

 values of food stuffs for trout Trout and the close season Time 

 of spawning Close season too short Board of Conservators. 



THE scientific development of the most delightful of all 

 sports namely, fly fishing for trout has produced a 

 corresponding advancement in the breeding of these 

 beautiful and sporting fish, and no book on trout fishing 

 would be complete without a reference to fish culture. 

 Pisciculture as an occupation, if wisely and scientifically 

 pursued, will not only create a fascinating and absorbing 

 interest for the one who takes it up, but it should, under 

 favourable circumstances, become a remunerative and sound 

 commercial business. Although dating back to the early 

 Egyptian dynasties, fish culture received its first great 

 impetus in the middle of the eighteenth century, when the 

 possibility of artificially fecundating the ova of fish was 

 discovered by one Stephen Ludwig Jacobi, of Hohenhausen, 

 in Westphalia. It was not, however, until 1837 that fish 

 culture was inaugurated in Britain by a Mr. John Shaw, 

 who fecundated the ova of salmon and reared the young 

 fish. 



Trout farms have become numerous in England, and I 

 wish to impress on the student the advisability of not only 

 reading and studying the literature of trout breeding, but 

 also, by personal visits to any trout-rearing establishment 



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