194 .MAKING A FISHERY. 



the lessee or owner of a fishery to do anything. 

 If he did it would have little or no effect 

 beyond that of adding to the severe strain 

 inseparable from the act of reproduction. The 

 instinct of the females to find suitable places 

 in which to deposit their eggs, and the instinct 

 of the males to follow the females, are so strong 

 that nothing short of penning them in would 

 prevent their accomplishing their object. In 

 some cases fish will travel considerable distances 

 to get to a particular shallow. A pisciculturist, 

 whose statements may be accepted as most 

 accurate, told me of an instance where he 

 netted a female fish on a particular shallow, and 

 carried her down to his hatchery. Finding that 

 she was not quite ripe for stripping he turned 

 her on to a shallow in the river close to the 

 hatchery, telling his attendant that he would be 

 able to net her in a few days and take the 

 eggs. There was some strongly-marked pecu- 

 liarity about this fish, and a week later he again 

 netted the shallow from which he had taken her 

 before, again caught her in the net, and this 

 time took the eggs. He assured me that the 

 distance from the hatchery to the shallow in 

 question was fully two miles. 

 Moving fish If after spawning in a carrier the adult fish 



spawning. will hang about on or near the redds, it is well 

 to remove them from the temptation of devouring 



