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MAKING A FISHERY. 



Various 

 breeds of 

 trout for 

 stocking. 



that the count even in this case cannot be 

 considered anything like accurate. 



In addition to encouraging as far as possible 

 the natural reproduction of the river, it must be 

 taken as proven that stocking by turning in 

 trout obtained from some outside source is 

 necessary in a stream which is in any way 

 heavily fished. A few may be caught or pro- 

 cured from neighbouring streams, but the 

 aggregate number to be thus obtained is so 

 small, and the risk of encouraging poaching on 

 one's neighbours' waters, by buying them 

 indiscriminately, so large, that practically no 

 resource is open, except that of buying from 

 a pisciculturist, or starting a hatchery oneself. 



Of the species or varieties, the American 

 brook trout {Salmo fontinalis) is a very hand- 

 some fish, grows to a good size, but has not, in 

 this country, proved suitable for stocking rivers. 

 It is really a char, has a strong instinct to 

 work down stream, and where introduced has 

 generally been lost after a few seasons. Fish- 

 culturists have succeeded in breeding a hybrid 

 between this and the ordinary English trout 

 {S. fario), of which great things are predicted, 

 but the matter has not yet progressed beyond 

 the experimental phase. The rainbow trout (S. 

 irideus) is another American species, which may 

 prove as game as it is striking in appearance. 



