Amateur Fish Culture: Everything You Need to Know About Aquaponics And Fish Rearing Basics

“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 Introductory II Stocking Waters with Food III Suitable Fish and Suitable Waters IV Trout. Preliminary Hints and Advice V Trout. Rearing Ponds, Boxes, and Hatching Trays VI Trout. Management of the Ova and Alevins VII Trout. Management of the Fry VIII Trout. The Management of the Fry (Continued) IX Trout. The Friends and Enemies of the Fish Culturist X Trout. Management, Feeding, and Turning out of Yearlings XI The Rearing of the Rainbow Trout, American Brook Trout, and Char XII Salmon and Sea-Trout XIII Coarse Fish Appendix

“In the present little volume, I propose to try and deal with fish culture in such a way as to help the amateur who wishes to rear fish to stock his own water. Much of the existing literature of the subject deals with it on such a large scale that the amateur is frightened to attempt what is apparently so huge an undertaking. Fish culture may, however, be carried out on a small scale with success, and though considerable attention is necessary, particularly with young Salmonidæ, it is not a task which involves a very great proportion of the time of any one undertaking it. It is absolutely necessary, however, that the amateur fish culturist should live on the spot, or have some one who is intelligent and perfectly trustworthy who does. In every case in my experience, trusting the care of young fish to a keeper or servant has resulted in failure, and in every failure I have seen where the fish have not been trusted to the care of a servant, the cause has been very obvious, and could easily have been avoided.”