An Angler's Paradise and how to Obtain itThe Angler, 1898 - 304 pages |
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Page 18 - He who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of the race.
Page 87 - consume carbon and return oxygen. Trout consume oxygen and return carbon. By putting plants and fish together, therefore, we avail ourselves of one of Nature's great universal agencies, in balancing vital forces against each other, and maintaining the equilibrium on which the continuance of organic life depends.
Page 30 - ... supplies. At the date we have indicated, great attention was devoted to pisciculture by various gentlemen of scientific eminence. Count Goldstein wrote on the subject to M. de Fourcroy, and Duhamel du Monceau gave it publicity in his treatise on fishes. The Journal of Hanover also had papers on this art, and an account of Jacobi's proceedings was likewise enrolled in the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Berlin. The discovery of...
Page 292 - From the time the salmon enters fresh water it begins to deteriorate in flesh and undergoes remarkable changes iu form and color. Arriving as a shapely fish, clad in shining silvery scales, and with its flesh pink or red, it plays around for a little while between salt water and fresh, and then begins its long fast and its wearisome journey. No food is taken, and there are shoals, rapids, and sometimes cataracts to surmount; but the salmon falters not, nor can it be prevented from accomplishing its...
Page 30 - ... the breeding-salmon. Observing that the process of impregnation was entirely an external act, he saw at once that this could be easily imitated by careful manipulation ; so that by conducting artificial hatching on a large scale, a constant and unfailing supply of fish might readily be obtained. The results arrived at by Jacobi were of vast importance, and obtained not only the recognition of his government but also the more solid reward of a pension.
Page 23 - ... to be eventually the origin or increase of revenue to private individuals — a source of national wealth, and certainly a great boon to the public in general.
Page 161 - There is no word in the fish breeders' vocabulary that is so associated with loss and devastation as the word " fungus." There is nothing with which he has to deal that is so insidious and deadly as fungus. This silent, invisible foe is sure to come, if any door is left open for its entrance. It often fastens its irrevocable grasp on the eggs, without giving any sign of its approach. Once present in the water, it spreads over everything. It cannot be removed. It never lets go its hold. It is...
Page 292 - ... and sometimes cataracts to surmount; but the salmon falters not, nor can it be prevented from accomplishing its mission by anything but death or an impassable barrier. Its body soon becomes thin and lacerated, and its fins are worn to shreds by contact with the sharp rocks. In the males a great hump is developed on the back behind the head, and the jaws are lengthened and distorted so that the mouth can not be closed. The wounded fish are soon attacked by the salmon fungus, and progress from...
Page 292 - ... of its head. The excessive mortality of salmon during the ascent of the streams and on the breeding-grounds has led to the belief that none of the spawning fish leave the fresh- water alive. There is a substantial basis for this view in the long rivers, and it is doubtless true that a journey of 500 miles or more is followed by the death of all the salmon concerned in it. The nest is a very simple affair, or it may be wanting. The humpback struggles and crowds up a few rods from the sea, and...
Page 180 - ... more simple, and more durable. In estimating their comparative merits I should say that the glass grilles are the thing for the rich man's experiments, and the carbonized troughs are the thing for business ; I cannot but think that the carbonized troughs will supersede everything else, where trout* Fourteen trout eggs were placed on a copper-wire screen, in November, 1869, at the Cold Spring Trout Ponds, and in fifty days they had absorbed so much copper that they were of a dark brown tinge,...