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CHAPTER XI. 



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On Smaliee Pokds 188 



Oiir Bad Management of Fish Ponds ib. 



The Filthy State of our Fish Ponds 189 



Instance at Stanton Harcouit 190 



Plan piu'sued in Holland 191 



The Use of Weeds m Ponds 192 



How Ponds should he Fished *. 



The Growth of Carp H. 



On the Formation of Ponds 193 



The hest Fish and their Proportions for Ponds . . . . 194 



The Extraordinary Growth of Fish in Mr. Maltby's Ponds 195 



Eoach objectionable in Carp Ponds 198 



Instance, Brownwich ib. 



Eels objectionable in Ponds 200 



The Destructiveness of Swans ib. 



Their ravenous taste for Fish Spawn 201 



Instance, Marlow 203 



The Perch in Ponds 204 



The Spiegel Carp . .• 205 



Pike in Ponds and Lakes ib. 



Bream in Ponds and Lakes 207 



Instance, Lough Erne 208 



1 CHAPTER XII. 



Does the Abstkaction op Ova from a Fishery Injure it ? 209 



Instance, Mr. Gurney's Fishery ib. 



Instance, Mr. Smith's Fishery ib. 



The advantage of Disturbing Vermin, &c 211 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Our Sea Fisheries 213 



Bounties on Herrings, and their Advantage .... ib. 



On Training Seamen . . . 214 



Absence of Information with regard to Sea Fisheries . . 215 



