THE CRUCIAN CARP 



CARASSIUS CARASSIUS or C. VULGARIS 



By R. B. MARSTON 



HE crucian carp is found in many ponds and ornamental waters 

 in this country. It is much deeper for its length and more 

 bream-like than the common carp and, like its cousin, the gold 

 fish (Carassius auratus), has no beards or barbels. It rarely 

 exceeds two pounds, and can only be considered as a useful fish 

 for amusing young anglers. Mr C. Tate Regan says that an 



elongate form of the same fish is called " Prussian carp." Couch gives 



illustrations of both forms. 

 Many works on carp culture have been published in Germany and 



France. The most exhaustive general treatise I know, including angling 



for carp as carried on in Belgium and France, is " La Carpe," by Fernand 



Serrane, published in 1910 by Charles Bulens, Brussels. 



THE RECORD ENGLISH CARP 



From Mr T. A. Morris, of West Street, Bourne, I received in October, 

 1903, particulars of a monster carp. 



This twenty -nine pound fish was not a beauty to look at, but it must 

 be remembered that it was photographed some time after it was found, on 

 March 20, 1903, by a keeper at the shallow end of Wytham-on-the-Hill 

 Lake, on the estate of W. Fenwick, Esq. Wytham is a village four and a half 

 miles south-west from Bourne, and eight miles from Stanford. 



It is supposed that the fish got stranded in the mud. 



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