. Domesticated trout [microform] : how to breed and grow them. Fish culture; Trout; Pisciculture; Truite. GROWING THE LARGE TROUT. 223 d at will , but DfOUS 75°- ; over ;xcept an do s long in summer, when they are fat and the water is warm, they actually seem to die before they are hurt. Rough handling is very often the cause of death ; but it is a very unnecessary and inexcusable cause. All the handling that needs to be done can, ninety-nine times in a hundred, be done without hurting the fish. The suggestions given in the chapter on spawnmg trout will perhaps be a sufficient guide on this po
. Domesticated trout [microform] : how to breed and grow them. Fish culture; Trout; Pisciculture; Truite. GROWING THE LARGE TROUT. 223 d at will , but DfOUS 75°- ; over ;xcept an do s long in summer, when they are fat and the water is warm, they actually seem to die before they are hurt. Rough handling is very often the cause of death ; but it is a very unnecessary and inexcusable cause. All the handling that needs to be done can, ninety-nine times in a hundred, be done without hurting the fish. The suggestions given in the chapter on spawnmg trout will perhaps be a sufficient guide on this pomt. I would by all means dissect at least one fish, and hnd where the vitals lie, and just the viscera are packed together inside. You will find you can, by practice, squeeze a fish very hard, if you know where the vitals are, without killing it. Always be careful not to scrape off the slime fr n the skin, for where the slime is off fungus will grow, and the result is death. ^ , . -^ • 5 Keep your trout well sorted. I know that it is often said, " Feed your trout well, and they will not eat each ; Perhaps they will not, hut it is not pru- dent to trust them. It is a risk, to say the least of it, to keep fish of different sizes in a herd together, and, being a risk, it ought to be avoided on principle. If any one doubts whether actual mischief is done by it, let him put five hundred trout of different sizes m a pond for a year, and take them out at the end of that time and count them over ag-^in. I think he will be convinced. This is something that some trout growers are altogether too careless about. They would not think of keeping foxes and fowls together, even if the foxes were well fed, yet they run equal risk with their trout, and think nothing of it. I have seen more than. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may n
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