FISH POND AND TRANSPORTATION OF FISH. 



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zation, or transportation of the scaly tribe, seems to be with 

 most tenants or owners of land beneath or beyond their 

 notice. 



As an article of food, the fish is given to us, without doubt, 

 to gratify our varied tastes ; and in some seasons, particularly in 

 the early spring and summer, when other meats are out of 

 season and without relish, is more tasteful, healthful, and desi- 

 rable than any other palate delicacy. Include then the pleasure, 

 excitement, and vigor embraced in his piscatorial capture, and 

 we have a means of happiness which should be improved by all 

 who study the pleasures of mind and body. 



Most of the varieties of our subject can be transported or 

 propagated with very little trouble, and some are so tenacious 

 of life that they require no care whatever. 



Perch, Carp, and Pike can be transported a long distance, 

 say fifty or sixty miles, with ordinary carriage conveyance, and 

 by the present railroad and steamboat conveyance, hundreds 

 of miles. Capt. Henry Robinson, of Newburgh, N. Y., in the 

 year 1832, brought some six or seven dozen Carp from France, 

 and put them into a pond, supplied by springs of clear and pure 

 water, on his farm, where they increased to a surprising degree. 

 He has supplied many friends with them, who have distributed 

 them about in various parts of the country. This public -spirited 

 gentleman has also for a number of years put a few dozens in 

 the Hudson river. They grow much larger in the river, and 

 have increased so much that they are often taken by the fisher- 

 men in their nets. 



The Black Basse can be made to change his residence by 

 one or two changes of water for the same distance. This latter 

 fish is growing in favor for large ponds, and will in the course 

 of a few years become very generally distributed throughout the 

 country. He is well worth the trouble of removing, and where 

 a few gentlemen, or those of the craft join together in the ex- 



