234 ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT FISHERIES 



Actual restocking is usually done by one 

 of the following methods : By laying down 



These are average prices, and are for common 

 brown trout. I have omitted anything over two- 

 year-olds, because fish above that age are, owing 

 to the great cost of carriage, practically pro- 

 hibitive. With this choice the difficulty is to 

 judge which method will give the best return for 

 the cost. 



Looking to the above table, the great temptation 

 in restocking is to purchase fry ; and generally 

 the best reason that can be given for this 

 is that 10,000 fry can be purchased for 10. 

 The deduction is easy to read the fry, if turned 

 down in suitable places, can take care of them- 

 selves ; that 10,000 fry will stock any reasonable 

 extent of water ; that in two seasons this same 

 water will contain 10,000 takable trout and the 

 thing is done. 



Now this is an order of things that never occurs 

 in nature but only on paper. 



Fry are, of course, successfully reared, but in 

 quantities under only what are practically artificial 

 conditions, and where constant specialist care can 

 be given and constant means daily or oftener. 

 There are tiny natural streams favourably placed 

 and peculiarly well adapted where a large per- 

 centage of fry grow into yearlings, but even under 



