XIV . CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



PISH CULTURE. 



PAGE 



Antiquity of Pisciculture — Italian Fish-Culture^gergius Grata — Ee- 

 disoovery of the Art— Shaw versus Gehin and Eemy — Jacobi — 

 Shaw of Drumlanrig — The Ettrick Shepherd — Scientific and Com- 

 mercial Pisciculture — A Trip to , Huningue — Bale and its Fish- 

 market — Huningue deaorihed — The Water Supply — Modus Oper- 

 andi at Huningue — Packing Fish-Eggs — An important Question — 

 . Artificial Spawning — Danuhe Salmon — Plain of a Suite of Ponds — 

 M. de Galhert's Establishment — Practical Nature of Pisciculture 

 — Turtle-Culture— Best Kinds of Fish to rear — Pisciculture in 

 Germany — Stormontfield Salmon-Breeding Ponds — Design for a 

 Suite of Salmon-Ponds — Statistics of Stormontfield — Acclimatisa- 

 tion of Fish — The Australian Experiment .... 61 



CHAPTER V. 



anglers' riSHES. 



Fresh-Water Fish not of much value — The Angler and his Equipment 

 — Pleasures of the Country in May — ^Anglers' Fishes-^Tront, 

 Pike, Perch, and Carp' — Gipsy Anglers^Angling Localities — Gold ' 

 Fish — The River Scenery of England — The Thames — Thames 

 Anglers — Sea Angling — Various Kinds of Sea-Fish — Proper Kinds 

 of Bait — ^The Tackle necessary — The Island of Arran — Corry — 

 Goatfell, etc 93 



CHAPTER VI. 



NATUEAL HISTOEY OF THE SALMON. 



The Salmon our best-known Fish — :Controversies and Anomalies — 



- Food of . Salmon — .The Parr Controversy — Experiments by 



Shaw, Young, and Hogg — Grilse : its Rate of Growth — Do Salmon 



make Two Voyages to the Sea in each Year ? — The Best Way of 



Marking Young Salmon . . '■ . . . . . 124 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE ECONOMY OF A SALMON EIVEE. 



The Salmon as an article of Commerce — Fecundity of the Fish Mr. 



Stoddart's Calculations — Dangers of Overfishing — Growth of our 

 Salmon-Fisheries — The Golden Age of the Fisheries — Grilse- 

 KUliog — The River Tay : Statistics of its Produce — ^The English 

 Salmon-Fisheries — Upper and Lpwer Proprietors . . . nx 



