CHAPTER IV. 



TRANSPORTATION OF FISH. 



It sometimes so happens that it is desirable to 

 transport live fish from one location to another. 

 The transportation of live fish has always been 

 a laborious business to me, and hazardous to the 

 fish, until I hit upon the plan of conveying them 

 in water, made very cold by the addition of ice. 

 I carried four hundred and twenty trout a dis- 

 tance of twenty-eight miles without changing the 

 water once, in a barrel only ithree-fourths full of 

 water; the water was kept as cold as it possibly 

 could be by frequent additions of ice. I lost only 

 four or five of the fish, and these were killed by 

 being jammed between the pieces of ice. They 

 were in the barrel fully eighteen hours without 

 the water having been once changed. 



I feel very confident that they would not have 

 lived a single hour in the water, had it not been 

 for the extreme cold caused by the frequent addi- 

 tions of ice. The fish, however, were all small — 

 one-third of them, perhaps, were two years old; 

 the remainder were yearlings and young fry of six 



months. 



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