CHAPTER IX. 



THE STEW. 



JF the plan of purchasing yearlings, 

 keeping them in captivity for a year, 

 and feeding them liberally before 

 turning them in be adopted, a stew must be 

 arranged to carry out this work. Any carrier 

 which can be emptied so as to remove all its 

 fish, and securely fence off both ends, would be 

 available for such purpose, the only necessary 

 condition being that the water supply is ample 

 and continuous and that the control of the water 

 level is in the hands of the fishing lessee. If 

 there is no carrier fulfilling these conditions an 

 artificial cut can often be made across a sharp 

 bend of the river with hatches at the upper and 

 lower ends. Of course a properly-constructed 

 stew is preferable to any such makeshift, and 

 the following description of one which had been 

 constructed many years since, probably for the 

 purpose of keeping a few live fish for the 



