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[From the catching of fish to their cultivation is a natural, 

 though perhaps inverted, transition. Indeed, no book on 

 angling could nowadays be considered complete which ignored 

 the latter subject. Let us, therefore, transfer the scene from 

 the well-stocked 'salmon river' or trout stream, with its triumphs 

 and discomfitures, to the nursery-ponds at Guilford where so 

 large a proportion of the principal performers were very likely 

 born and bred. 



Every year the problem of restocking and replenishing our 

 *fished-out' waters is becoming more pressing, and unless 

 pisciculturists had come to the rescue the question for anglers 

 and fishing proprietors would soon have been not ' How shall 

 we catch fish ? ' but ' How shall we get fish to catch ? ' . . . Mr. 

 Thomas Andrews' probably unequalled practical experience 

 gives an importance and value to his opinions on fish-culture 

 which will be appreciated by all who take a scientific, ' sporting.' 

 or commercial interest in the subject. — H. C.-P.] 



