. American fish-culture [microform] : embracing all the details of artificial breeding and rearing of trout, the culture of salmon, shad and other fishes. Fish culture; Fishes; Oyster-culture; Pisciculture; Poissons; Ostréiculture. CULTURE OF THE SALMON. 133 " In relation to the DoohuUa river,—I should rather say the DoohuUa waters, because there is nothing which can well be dignified by the name of river connected with the concern. There are several small loughs or lakes which now discharge through two artificial cuts, one connecting the upper lakes with the lower one, and the other conn
. American fish-culture [microform] : embracing all the details of artificial breeding and rearing of trout, the culture of salmon, shad and other fishes. Fish culture; Fishes; Oyster-culture; Pisciculture; Poissons; Ostréiculture. CULTURE OF THE SALMON. 133 " In relation to the DoohuUa river,—I should rather say the DoohuUa waters, because there is nothing which can well be dignified by the name of river connected with the concern. There are several small loughs or lakes which now discharge through two artificial cuts, one connecting the upper lakes with the lower one, and the other connect- ing all with the sea, and more in the character of mere ditches than of rivers. The whole catchment area (as engineers call it) of these small lakes is very inconsidera- ble; they always contained some white trout which ascended through a tortuous stream or brook, when heavy rains created occasionally sufficient water in its rugged bed J these favorable opportunities however were few and very far between. This place was purchased some years ago by Mr. John Knight Boswell, of Monkstown, near Dublin. He requested me to assist him in such measures as might be adopted for the improvement of the fishery. " The main principle carried out, was that of connecting the waters of the several loughs; cuts were made to eflPeot this—the old stream was dammed out, the water was run through an additional lake before unconnected with the others. The speculation was a complete success, though a valuable white trout fishery only was created when Mr. Boswell sold it, realizing a large profit for his ; The following, which relates to the same waters after coming into possession of Mr. Cooper, is from a letter of Mr. Ramsbottom:— " It is four years this month since the first lot of ova were deposited, viz., 18,000. These, when hatched, were kept 12. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabi
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