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Table of Contents -
PART I. - AN ANGLERS PARADISE
CHAPTER I - Introductory - Referring to what has been done at home and abroad - In New Zealand - In Tasmania - Taking Salmon by machinery in America, etc.
CHAPTER II - Having reference to the Solway Fishery - Loch Kinder and its trout - Loch Leven trout - An angler's paradise - Poachers - Nature's motive power
CHAPTER III - CHIEFLY HISTORICAL
Frank Buckland - His prophecies - Their fullilment - Troutdale Fishery - Introduction of black bass and American trout - Solway Fishery commenced - Its progress - Nocturnal adventures - Discovery in Germany by Golstein - Jacobi - Gehin and Remy - M. Coste-Huningen - Gremaz German progress
CHAPTER IV - Referring to Lake Vyrnwy - Loch Leven - The English Lake district
PART II - HOW TO OBTAIN IT
CHAPTER l - FISH PONDS - CONSTRUCTION
How not to make them - How to make them - Water supply - Sluices and overflow - "Safety valve" - Leaf Screens - Ponds to be off the stream - Flood water kept out - Spawning beds - Barren water - Cultivation - Artificial spates - Storage of water - Outlet screen - Effect of wind - Material for screens - Various kinds and importance of screens - Fontinalis rising to the fly - Bottom outlets - How to work them
CHAPTER II - FISH PONDS - CULTIVATION
Plants - Balance of life - Flora and Fauna - Old ponds require cleaning - Pond life - Its bearing on fish life - Cultivation - Conditions of soil - Planting - New ponds - Virgin waters - Whitley reservoir - Importance of mollusca and crustaceans - Auquatic plants - Dalbeattie reservoir- Loch Fern - Plants to avoid - Weeding - Anacharis - Marginal plants
CHAPTER III - FISH PONDS - CULTIVATION CONTINUED
Marginal plants - Insect life - Plants for deep water - Plants to avoid. - Advantages of water lilies - Bottom-covering plants - A fish-eating plant - Ponds at Washington - Mollusca - Crustacea - Eels - How to catch them
CHAPTER IV - FISH PONDS - HOW TO STOCK THEM
Preparation - Stocking - Carrying live trout - Dipping the trout Transit - Large fish - Two-year-olds - Yearlings - Fry - Nursery ponds - Water plants - Turning out fry - Fry in rivers - Excellent travellers - Glass carriers - Advantages of - Equalizing temperature - Fish killed by thoughtlessness - Wooden carriers - Metal - Travelling trout in August - Care required - Fully eyed ova - Trout at the Antipodes - American work - Successes
CHAPTER V - THE HATCHERY
Selection of the water - Its importance - Construction - Outdoor hatchery- In-door hatchery - Frostproof building - Lighting - Filtration of water - Concrete floor - Drainage - The apparatus - How to construct - Carbonizing - Trap boxes - Catchpool - No admittance - Beware of visitors - Early days of the Solway Fishery - Care required in a hatchery
CHAPTER VI - COLLECTING THE EGGS
The old method as employed at Troutdale Hatchery - Ova hunting in Cumberland - Work on a natural stream - The water ouzel - Blank days. - Honister Crag - Ulleswater - Advantages of the present system - Spawning trout - Laying down the eggs - Embryology - Dry method of impregnation - Catching the Spawners - Sorting - Cleanliness - Effects of temperature - Washing the eggs - Hermaphrodite trout
CHAPTER VII - INCUBATING THE EGGS
Everything in perfect working order - Everything well seasoned - Preparing the grilles - Laying down ova - Picking - Beware of fungus - Sediment - Effects of concussion - Washing eggs - The eye spots - Embryo as seen through the microscope - The eggs commence hatching
CHAPTER VIII - HATCHING THE EGGS
Glass grilles - Their cost - Their advantages - Cleaning the hatching boxes - The egg-shells - Artificial ova beds - Settling pond - Filtering bed - Wire grilles - Destruction of ova left to Nature - Advantage of artificial beds - Californian baskets - Repairing grilles - Overcrowding - Way of economizing space - Compact storage box
CHAPTER IX - PACKING AND UNPACKING THE EGGS
Ova at the antipodes - The tropics-various methods - Modus operandi at the Solway Fishery - Selecting and preparing the moss - Its cultivation - Woven fabric - Best time to pack-ova to hatch rapidly on unpacking - Long voyages- Unpacking - Washing off the moss - Fully eyed eggs
CHAPTER X - CARE OF "ALEVINS"
Word derived from the French. - Appearance on first hatching - Very helpless at first - Begin to pack - Hides to be avoided - Providelids for the boxes - Structure of "alevins" - Cleanliness - Guard against rats or mice - Water insects - How to detect their presence - Cripples - Deformities - Dropsy or blue swelling - Constitutional weakness - Fungus - Paralysis - White spot - Soffocation - Still waters
CHAPTER XI - POND LIFE
Water full of life - Care required in dealing with it - The rotifera - Rules for cultivation - Nature's provision for young fish - Daphnia pulex - Cyclops quadricornis - Cypris tristriata - Arachnida - Notonecta - Corixa - Gammarus - Dytiscus - Caddis worms - Ephemera - Shellfish - Parasites - Saprolegnia
CHAPTER XII - REARING THE FRY
Commencing to feed - Training - The right kind of food - Time for turning out - Entomostraca - Grated liver - Mode of feeding - Feeding machines - Shrimp paste - Chopping machine - Transfer to rearing ponds - The old plan - The new plan - Floating boxes - Ponds to be kept quiet - Cutting the grass - Pond bottoms to be kept clean - Earth in ponds - Scum on the water - Fungus - Salt - Thinning out the fish.
CHAPTER XIII - THE YEARLING STAGE
Salmonide adapted to cultivation - Rising to the fly - Fish culture requires experience - The food of yearlings - Must be properly dispensed - Development and selection of stock fish. - Deformities - Pedigree stock - Sorting - Transit of yearlings - Netting - Preparation necessary - Caution to purchasers - Yearling nets - Yearlings hold their own against large trout - Two-year olds.
CHAPTER XIV - MANAGEMENT OF MATURE TROUT
Maturity considered - How mature trout are dealt with - The net - Its use - Emptying the pond - Business pond differs widely from a lake or river - Trout eating trout - Sorting the fish - Food - The maggot factory - Tadpole rearing - Frogs and toads considered - Trout get very tame - Approaching of spawning time - Can trout hear - Do fish sleep - The senses of taste and smell - Varieties of colour and markings - How many species - Selection and crossing of races - Trout anadromous in New Zealand - Reversion to type - Square tail and forked tail
CHAPTER XV - SALMON CULTURE
Great loss in nature - Large number of eggs deposited - Bad management of our rivers - Some evils may be remedied - Poachers considered - Impounding salmon - Where to get the best eggs - Nature's discrepancies provided for - More about poachers - Fate of the eggs - Falling off in catch of salmon - Rate of natural increase considered - Feeding of salmon - Migration - Experiments - Smolts and grilse - The United States - Salmon of Alaska - Alaskan and British salmon compared - Saprolegnia
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