. 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. 210 AMERICAN FISH CULTURE. voraciousness. It destroys almost everything before it, except the perch, and even kills out pickerel by devouring the young. But in ponds already infested with pickerel and abounding in 'shiners,' it may be introduced with much profit, because it replaces bad fish by good. It should be carefully excluded, however, from all waters that con
. 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. 210 AMERICAN FISH CULTURE. voraciousness. It destroys almost everything before it, except the perch, and even kills out pickerel by devouring the young. But in ponds already infested with pickerel and abounding in 'shiners,' it may be introduced with much profit, because it replaces bad fish by good. It should be carefully excluded, however, from all waters that contain trout, white fish or other valuable species, and from ponds communicating with such waters, for it is a most restless and pushing robber, eagerly searching and follow- ing the inlets and outlets of its pond. Of this propensity the Brookline r<?servoir gives the most curious instance. Nine black bass of 2Ho 3 pounds were put there in July 1862. Since then, in the examination of the water-pipes leading from this reservoir to Long Pond,, these fishes have been found in considerable numbers and of large size; and, moreover, either by their young or their eggs, they have penetrated the screen at the mouth of the pipe itself!* So these black bass, apparently impelled by no other feel- ing than that of restlessness, performed an underground journey of fifteen miles, in a brick aqueduct whose greatest diameter was six feet !"f How easy it would be to introduce these bass into ponds where pike have exterminated the more valuable trout, or * Communication from Mr. John H. Thorndike, President of the Water Board. t Arrangements have been made with Mr. Tisdale to stock several other ponds, and the work is already begun. The best time to move the live fish is in the cool v/eather of late autumn or of early Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illu
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