The book Fish Culture in Ponds And Other Inland Waters was written by author Meehan, William Edward, 1853- Here you can read free online of Fish Culture in Ponds And Other Inland Waters book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Fish Culture in Ponds And Other Inland Waters a good or bad book?
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They hecome so firmly attached to the bottom and to each other that it is difficult to remove them without damaging a great quantity and taking along stones and gravel. The fish en- ter the streams in such crowds that I have seen bottoms thickly covered by eggs almost from shore to shore, and for a distance of over 100 yards. New York was the first state to undertake the propagation of the smelt, and its fishery au- thorities hatched from 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 annually. The smelts are caugh...t in nets and transported to troughs on the hatchery grounds similar in construction to a trout-hatching trough, but without gravel of any kind. About eight inches of water is flowed through them, and the apparatus is kept covered by boards. Smelts do not seem to mind their capture and yield their spawn freely. The eggs are so minute that it requires nearly 500,000 to fill a quart-measure. Every morning, the hatchery men shovel the eggs from the troughs into buckets partly filled with water. The thick masses of eggs are 214 FISH CULTURE then sieved through, wire trays of very fine mesh, care being taken that the work is done in the gloom of the hatching-honse.
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