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    Amateur Fish Culture
    Amateur Fish Culture
    Amateur Fish Culture
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    Amateur Fish Culture

    By C. E. Walker

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    This book contains a comprehensive guide to breeding fish, with a special focus on breeding trout and salmon. Written in clear, plain language and full of handy tips and useful suggestions, this volume is ideal for the amateur, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “Stocking Waters with Food”, “Suitable Fish and Suitable Waters”, “Trout – Preliminary Hints and Advice”, “Trout – Rearing Ponds, Boxes, and Hatching Trays”, “Trout – Management of the Ova and Alevins”, “Trout – Management of the Fry”, “The Rearing of the Rainbow Trout”, etcetera. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author. This book was first published in 1901.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 10, 2014
    ISBN9781473392694
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      Amateur Fish Culture - C. E. Walker

      AMATEUR FISH

      CULTURE

      BY CHARLES EDWARD WALKER

      AUTHOR OF "OLD FLIES IN NEW

      DRESSES SHOOTING ON A

      SMALL INCOME," ETC

      1901

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the

      British Library

      Charles E. Walker

      Charles Edward Walker was born on 11 March 1860, at Corning, Steuben County, New York, USA. He was the son of Congressman Charles C. B. Walker (1824-1888) and was educated at the local Corning Free Academy.

      As a young man, Walker spent a short time working as a horse and cattle breeder at a farm in Palmyra, Wayne County, later working as a lumber jack. By 1891 however, he was actively participating in the New York political scene. Unfortunately for Walker, when he ran in the senatorial election, he narrowly lost to his Republican opponent, Franklin D. Sherwood. As luck would have it, Sherwood was declared ineligible for service due to his service as a city officer, and Walker was seated by a vote of the Democratic majority of the State Senate in 1892. He successfully served as chairman of various committees–ranging from internal affairs and manufactures to miscellaneous corporations and railroads. The New York State Senate was one of two houses in the New York State Legislature, and its members were elected for two-year terms; on the completion of his term, Walker was voted in again (there being no limit on the amount of times one may serve). Reputedly, Walker received warm hospitalities from much of New York’s society elite, largely due to the popularity of his father, but quickly established himself as a well-respected figure in his own right. Sadly, Walker died about six weeks after the end of the political session, on 6 June 1893, at the age of thirty-three. As reported by the New York Times, he died at his home in Corning from a ‘spinal affection’.

      AMATEUR FISH CULTURE

      BUTLER & TANNER,

      THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS,

      FROME, AND LONDON.

      PREFACE

      MY aim, in this little book, has been to give information and hints which will prove useful to the amateur. Some of the plans and apparatus suggested would not be suitable for fish culture on a large scale, but my object has been to confine myself entirely to operations on a small scale. I have to thank the Editor of Land and Water for permission to publish in book form what first appeared as a series of articles.

      CHARLES WALKER.

      MAYFIELD, SUSSEX.

      March, 1901.

      CONTENTS

      APPENDIX

      INDEX

      CHAPTER I

      INTRODUCTORY

      FISH culture of a certain kind dates from very early times, but its scientific development has only come about quite recently. Most people know that in our own country the monks had stew ponds, where they kept fish, principally carp, and also that the Romans kept fish in ponds. In the latter case we hear more often of the eel than of other fish. The breeding of trout and salmon, and the artificial spawning and hatching of ova, are, however, an innovation of our own time.

      Much has been discovered about the procreation of fish, and in no case have scientists worked so hard and discovered more than in the case of Salmonidœ. Fish culture, particularly trout culture, has become a trade, and a paying one. To any one who has the least idea of the difficulties to be overcome in rearing Salmonidœ, this fact alone proves that fish culture must have progressed to a very advanced stage as a science.

      This advance has in very many, if not in the majority of cases, been made by the bitter experience gained through failures and mishaps, for these have led fish culturists to try many different means to prevent mischances, or to rectify them if they have happened. Some of the most serious difficulties experienced by the early fish culturists who bred Salmonidœ can now be almost disregarded, for they hardly exist for the modern fish culturist, with the knowledge he possesses of the experience of others.

      So much of what has been done in fish culture is generally known to those who have studied and practised it, that the beginner can nowadays commence far ahead of the point whence the first fish culturists started. Many of his difficulties have been overcome for him already, and though he will not, of course, meet with the success of the man of experience, still he ought with the exercise of an average amount of intelligence to avoid such failures as would completely disgust him.

      There are many pieces of water containing nothing but coarse fish which are very suitable for trout of some kind. Ponds, particularly those which have a stream running through them, will, as a rule, support a good head of trout if properly managed. Again a water which contains trout may become more or less depleted, and here it is necessary to supply the deficiency of trout by some means. The easiest way is, of course, to buy yearling or two-year-old fish from a piscicultural establishment, of which there are many in the kingdom, but I know that there are many fishermen who would much prefer to rear their own fish from the ova, than to buy ready-made fish. Any one who has the time and opportunity

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