HOW TO RAISE FISH DO SMALL SCALE FISH FARMING & CULTURE

Trout can't read... And it's a good thing, because this book gives away all their secrets. Focusing on trout for the better of 9 out of 14 chapters, this 43 page book is quite the little study in trout habitat, hatching, care, feeding, and management.

This book also takes a look at several other species of fish including Salmon and Carp as additonal stock. In addition to the species of fish you intend to primarily raise on your fish farm, you will want to consider some secondary kinds of fish as well.

One fish recommended to consider is perch. The fry make an excellent food source for other fish, especially for trout and offer a bit of diversity to your pond.

CHAPTER I – INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II - STOCKING WATERS WITH FOOD

CHAPTER III - SUITABLE FISH AND SUITABLE WATERS

CHAPTER IV - TROUT. PRELIMINARY HINTS AND ADVICE

CHAPTER V - TROUT. REARING PONDS, BOXES, AND HATCHING TRAYS

CHAPTER VI - TROUT. MANAGEMENT OF THE OVA AND ALEVINS

CHAPTER VII - TROUT. MANAGEMENT OF THE FRY

CHAPTER VIII - TROUT. THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FRY (CONTINUED)

CHAPTER IX - TROUT. THE FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF THE FISH CULTURIST

CHAPTER X - TROUT. MANAGEMENT, FEEDING, & TURNING OUT YEARLINGS

CHAPTER XI - THE REARING OF THE RAINBOW TROUT, AMERICAN BROOK TROUT, AND CHAR

CHAPTER XII - SALMON AND SEA-TROUT

CHAPTER XIII - COARSE FISH

CHAPTER XIV - ONLINE RESOURCES & READING

 

Holy cow, with 330 pages and 15 chapters, this book is really a whopper. Over 20 pages per chapter makes this very intensely detailed on each subject examined.

Divided into 2 parts, the first 4 chapters are mainly historical in nature, covering old-world fisheries in America and abroad. The remaining 11 chapters really get down to the business of raising fish.

In part 2, the first couple of chapters discuss setting up the flora and fauna and stocking with 2 year old fry. The next 6 chapters detail setting up the egg hatchery, collecting, incubating and hatching the eggs.

The remainder of the book is very intense on raising the yearlings to the fry stage. The last 2 chapters discuss mature Trout management and Salmon culture.

Opinionated, first-hand knowledge mixed with anecdotal evidence from others experiments make this a cool turn-of-the-century read from front to back.

PART I. - AN ANGLERS PARADISE

CHAPTER I - Introductory - Referring to what has been done at home and abroad - In New Zealand - In Tasmania - Taking Salmon by machinery in America, etc.

CHAPTER II - Having reference to the Solway Fishery - Loch Kinder and its trout - Loch Leven trout - An angler's paradise - Poachers - Nature's motive power

CHAPTER III - CHIEFLY HISTORICAL
Frank Buckland - His prophecies - Their fullilment - Troutdale Fishery - Introduction of black bass and American trout - Solway Fishery commenced - Its progress - Nocturnal adventures - Discovery in Germany by Golstein - Jacobi - Gehin and Remy - M. Coste-Huningen - Gremaz German progress

CHAPTER IV - Referring to Lake Vyrnwy - Loch Leven - The English Lake district

PART II - HOW TO OBTAIN IT

CHAPTER l - FISH PONDS - CONSTRUCTION
How not to make them - How to make them - Water supply - Sluices and overflow - "Safety valve" - Leaf Screens - Ponds to be off the stream - Flood water kept out - Spawning beds - Barren water - Cultivation - Artificial spates - Storage of water - Outlet screen - Effect of wind - Material for screens - Various kinds and importance of screens - Fontinalis rising to the fly - Bottom outlets - How to work them

CHAPTER II - FISH PONDS - CULTIVATION
Plants - Balance of life - Flora and Fauna - Old ponds require cleaning - Pond life - Its bearing on fish life - Cultivation - Conditions of soil - Planting - New ponds - Virgin waters - Whitley reservoir - Importance of mollusca and crustaceans - Auquatic plants - Dalbeattie reservoir- Loch Fern - Plants to avoid - Weeding - Anacharis - Marginal plants

CHAPTER III - FISH PONDS - CULTIVATION CONTINUED
Marginal plants - Insect life - Plants for deep water - Plants to avoid. - Advantages of water lilies - Bottom-covering plants - A fish-eating plant - Ponds at Washington - Mollusca - Crustacea - Eels - How to catch them

CHAPTER IV - FISH PONDS - HOW TO STOCK THEM
Preparation - Stocking - Carrying live trout - Dipping the trout Transit - Large fish - Two-year-olds - Yearlings - Fry - Nursery ponds - Water plants - Turning out fry - Fry in rivers - Excellent travellers - Glass carriers - Advantages of - Equalizing temperature - Fish killed by thoughtlessness - Wooden carriers - Metal - Travelling trout in August - Care required - Fully eyed ova - Trout at the Antipodes - American work - Successes

CHAPTER V - THE HATCHERY
Selection of the water - Its importance - Construction - Outdoor hatchery- In-door hatchery - Frostproof building - Lighting - Filtration of water - Concrete floor - Drainage - The apparatus - How to construct - Carbonizing - Trap boxes - Catchpool - No admittance - Beware of visitors - Early days of the Solway Fishery - Care required in a hatchery

CHAPTER VI - COLLECTING THE EGGS
The old method as employed at Troutdale Hatchery - Ova hunting in Cumberland - Work on a natural stream - The water ouzel - Blank days. - Honister Crag - Ulleswater - Advantages of the present system - Spawning trout - Laying down the eggs - Embryology - Dry method of impregnation - Catching the Spawners - Sorting - Cleanliness - Effects of temperature - Washing the eggs - Hermaphrodite trout

CHAPTER VII - INCUBATING THE EGGS
Everything in perfect working order - Everything well seasoned - Preparing the grilles - Laying down ova - Picking - Beware of fungus - Sediment - Effects of concussion - Washing eggs - The eye spots - Embryo as seen through the microscope - The eggs commence hatching

CHAPTER VIII - HATCHING THE EGGS
Glass grilles - Their cost - Their advantages - Cleaning the hatching boxes - The egg-shells - Artificial ova beds - Settling pond - Filtering bed - Wire grilles - Destruction of ova left to Nature - Advantage of artificial beds - Californian baskets - Repairing grilles - Overcrowding - Way of economizing space - Compact storage box

CHAPTER IX - PACKING AND UNPACKING THE EGGS
Ova at the antipodes - The tropics-various methods - Modus operandi at the Solway Fishery - Selecting and preparing the moss - Its cultivation - Woven fabric - Best time to pack-ova to hatch rapidly on unpacking - Long voyages- Unpacking - Washing off the moss - Fully eyed eggs

CHAPTER X - CARE OF "ALEVINS"
Word derived from the French. - Appearance on first hatching - Very helpless at first - Begin to pack - Hides to be avoided - Providelids for the boxes - Structure of "alevins" - Cleanliness - Guard against rats or mice - Water insects - How to detect their presence - Cripples - Deformities - Dropsy or blue swelling - Constitutional weakness - Fungus - Paralysis - White spot - Soffocation - Still waters

CHAPTER XI - POND LIFE
Water full of life - Care required in dealing with it - The rotifera - Rules for cultivation - Nature's provision for young fish - Daphnia pulex - Cyclops quadricornis - Cypris tristriata - Arachnida - Notonecta - Corixa - Gammarus - Dytiscus - Caddis worms - Ephemera - Shellfish - Parasites - Saprolegnia

CHAPTER XII - REARING THE FRY
Commencing to feed - Training - The right kind of food - Time for turning out - Entomostraca - Grated liver - Mode of feeding - Feeding machines - Shrimp paste - Chopping machine - Transfer to rearing ponds - The old plan - The new plan - Floating boxes - Ponds to be kept quiet - Cutting the grass - Pond bottoms to be kept clean - Earth in ponds - Scum on the water - Fungus - Salt - Thinning out the fish.

CHAPTER XIII - THE YEARLING STAGE
Salmonide adapted to cultivation - Rising to the fly - Fish culture requires experience - The food of yearlings - Must be properly dispensed - Development and selection of stock fish. - Deformities - Pedigree stock - Sorting - Transit of yearlings - Netting - Preparation necessary - Caution to purchasers - Yearling nets - Yearlings hold their own against large trout - Two-year olds.

CHAPTER XIV - MANAGEMENT OF MATURE TROUT
Maturity considered - How mature trout are dealt with - The net - Its use - Emptying the pond - Business pond differs widely from a lake or river - Trout eating trout - Sorting the fish - Food - The maggot factory - Tadpole rearing - Frogs and toads considered - Trout get very tame - Approaching of spawning time - Can trout hear - Do fish sleep - The senses of taste and smell - Varieties of colour and markings - How many species - Selection and crossing of races - Trout anadromous in New Zealand - Reversion to type - Square tail and forked tail

CHAPTER XV - SALMON CULTURE
Great loss in nature - Large number of eggs deposited - Bad management of our rivers - Some evils may be remedied - Poachers considered - Impounding salmon - Where to get the best eggs - Nature's discrepancies provided for - More about poachers - Fate of the eggs - Falling off in catch of salmon - Rate of natural increase considered - Feeding of salmon - Migration - Experiments - Smolts and grilse - The United States - Salmon of Alaska - Alaskan and British salmon compared - Saprolegnia

 

Originally from the 1880's this book was well written and quite detailed in an elegant style. This 19th century prose makes the book quite story-like and a pleasant read inside 79 pages of text. That's right, no pictures or diagrams.

The author, with 25 years experience at the time of this writing has quite alot to pass along and is quite astute in his knowledge of farming fish.

Quite stern in his attitude toward the protection of fish in thier natural enviroment, the author reprimands poachers and "farm boys" for taking fish out of season. He however backs his opinions with sound reasons.

All-in-all, this is quite good information that still stands up in todays world of aquaculture.

Chapter I - Natural fish farms - Utilising a farm pond or stream.

Chapter II - Fish eggs - Their waste - The prey of other fish, of birds, animals, reptiles and insects.

Chapter III - Artificial fish culture - Care of the eggs - Dead eggs - The fish culturist aids nature.

Chapter IV - Motherly instincts of fish - The black bass - The brook trout - The bull head.

Chapter V - Safety instincts of fish - A wise creator - Destruction of game - The culture of fish - Their discernment of enemies.

Chapter VI - Taking spawn from a fish - The methods of an expert.

Chapter VII - The reasoning power of fishes - Cases in point - Cunning of trout.

Chapter VIII - How farmers can raise their own trout - Stocking a stream or pond.

Chapter IX - Farmer boys and trout - A word to young fishermen - Spare the fish in and out of season.

Chapter X - Diseases of fish - Remedies - Care of the sick - Prevention better than cure.

Chapter XI - Malformation of fish fry - Curious illustrations - Freaks of fish construction.

Chapter XII - A Lesson in fish culture - Small and inexpensive beginnings - Care in selecting waters.

Chapter XIII - Wrong impressions in fish culture - Adaptations of fish to certain waters - Errors in practice.

Chapter XIV - Artificial hatching - Three requisites - Cleanliness, careful handling, free circulation of air and water.

Chapter XV - Protection of fish - Illegal methods of capture - Hints to farmers.

Chapter XVI - Construction of trout ponds - Temperature of the water - Ponds near the house - Removal of fish into new waters.

Chapter XVII - Ponds for artificial production of trout - Directions for making them.

Chapter XVIII - Carp for farmers - Construction of a carp pond.

Chapter XIX - Common fish - Perch, rock bass, bull heads, suckers, pickeral and the like.

Chapter XX - Angling for black bass - Varieties of this fish - The fly and tackle to employ.

Chapter XXI - The sturgeon - His peculiarities - "Albany Beef" - "Caviare" - Enemies of the sturgeon - Her eggs.

Chapter XXII - Transportation of fish - Structure of the fish-can - Necessity of care in handling and transporting.

Chapter XXIII - How to ship fish eggs - Caution in packing - Means to ensure safety.

Chapter XXIV - Cross breeding of fish - Some of my experiments - Hybrids of salmon trout and brook trout.

 

This book from 1860's takes you on an historical view of fish farming by the Chinese, Romans and Medieval people. Then, it takes you through the processes used in the inland fisheries of the authors time.

After that, four chapters deal specifically with the ova. From handling and transporting to hatching, the author details it all.

He's also layed out detailed building instructions and drawings of indoor and outdoor equipment. These look like they'd be real easy to follow and work out quite well.

The following two chapters discuss the young fishes early life, the alevin and fry stages. Finally, he teaches you how to safely transport your fish.

If you want to raise fish in a way that's good for the fish and you, this would be an excellent resource to have. It's full of sage advice from an expert in the field.

Introductory Chapter - The Origin And Progress Of Pisciculture - Chinese fish culture - Fish culture amongst the Romans - The Lucrine lake - Medieval fish culture: Dom Pinchon - Jacobi's method - Mr. Shaw of Drumlanrig - Gehin and Remy - Mons. Coste-Huningue - Description of Huningue and its apparatus - The establishment of the Acclimatisation Society - Table of the fish treated of.

Chapter I - Our Inland Fisheries - The salmon and its scarcity - Natural history of the salmon - Exportation of foul fish to France - Keeping salmon in lakes without an outlet - Peculiarities of salmon in American lakes - The salmon in the egg and smolt state - Irregularity of migrations - The enemies of the ova and fry - The advantages of artificial incubation - The chief Pisciculture operations in Great Britain - Vermin found in gravel, etc. - Alluvial deposits.

Chapter II - The Artificial Incubation Of Ova - Water supply - The French apparatus - Comparison of slate and earthenware trays - The deposition od ova - Volume of stream requires - Cisterns - Taps - Number of trays desirable - Arrangement of trays - Cisterns - Temperature - Sheds - Apparatus for streams - The grille and gravel compared - Cleanliness desirable - Floating apparatus - The catching of fish - Preponderance of males over females - Evidence of spawning condition - Articles necessary in manipulation - Timing of spawn - The best kind of nets to use - Sitting room apparatus.

Chapter III - On The Transport Of Ova - Plan for transmitting fresh-taken ova by rail - Cans for transmitting ova - Conveyance of ova to Australia - Conveyance of ova in charge - Method of packing and conveying vivified ova - Tenderness of greyling ova.

Chapter IV - The Hatching Of Ova And Treatment Of Alevins - Plans for removing dead ova from trays - Mr. Francis's method - Development of embryo - Peculiarity in greyling ova - Good ova and bad ova compared - Hatching of ova - Appearance of alevins - Transfer of alevins - Diseases of alevins - Difficuly of confining the fish - Protection of fry - Feeding of fry - Increased necessity for cleanliness.

Chapter V - Transport Of Fry And Fish - Fresh water by rail - Instances of loss of fry by carbonic acid - The transport of large fish - Mr. Eyre's fish-carrier - The transport of the Silurus Glanis - Mr. Lowe's account of the introduction of the Silurus Glanis.

Chapter VI - The Food Of Fish And Its Production - Omnivorousness of fish - Difference displayed in breeds of trout - Experiments in feeding - The fish of the Chess and Wick compared and considered - The Gammarus, its excellence as food for fish - The cause of fish not rising well to the fly in some lakes - Food in weeds - Introduction of crustacea - Introduction of larva of flies - Loch Leven - Welsh Lake and leeches - Splendid trout in Mill-pond at Alton - The value of water-weeds - The anacharis Alsinastrum for mountain lakes - The production of fish food, a new science - Pollards as food producers - Minnows not advantageous in some trout lakes.

Chapter VII - The Crossing Of Breeds Of Fish - The size of fish in various rivers - Comparison to the breeds of cattle - Little known with respect to hybrids - Failure of experiment to produce hybrids.

Chapter VIII - The Best Kinds Of Fish For Rivers - The best fresh-water fish - The Sea Trout - The Eriox - The Charr - The Scandinavian Charr - The Iceland Charr - The Grayling - The Burbot - The Lamprey - The Lampern - The Perch - How to cook one - The Eel - The Flounder - The Gudeon - Coarse fish and common rivers - Chub, Barbel, Dace, and Roach - Jack and Tench - Carp in rivers - The Bream - The Whitebait - The Bleak - The Shad - Twaite and Allice - The Sturgeon - The Cray Fish - The Pearl Mussel - Leech Culture.

Chapter IX - Fish To Be Acclimatized In Rivers - The Hutchen - The Ide - The Black Bass - The Mountain Mullet - The Murray Cod.

Chapter X - Lakes, Pools, Etc. - Salmon and Sea Trout lakes - Trout lakes - The introduction of Jack to Trout lakes - Salmo Ferox - Best sized Trout for lakes - The absence of middle sized fish in some lakes - The Ombre Chevalier - The Lucio Perca - The Coregoni - The Powan - The Pollan and Vendace - The Gwyniad - The White Fish, or Coregonus Albus - The Otsego Bass - The Maskinoge The Silurus Glanis - Letter to the Times on its arrival.

Chapter XI - Smaller Ponds - Our bad management of fish ponds - The filthy state of our fish ponds - Plan pursued in Holland - The use of weeds in ponds - How ponds should be fished - The growth of Carp - On the formation of ponds - The best fish and their proportions for ponds - The extraordinary growth of fish in Mr. Maltby's ponds - Roach obectionable in Carp ponds - Instance, Brownwich - Eels objectionable in ponds - The destructivness of Swans - Their ravenous taste for fish spawn - Instance, Marlow - The Perch in ponds - The Spiegel Carp - Pike in ponds and lakes - Bream in ponds and lakes - Instance, Lough Erne.

Chapter XII - Does The Abstraction Of Ova From A Fishery Injure It? - Instance, Mr. Gurney's Fishery - Instance, Mr. Smith's Fishery - The advantage of disturbing vermin, etc.

 

This is a cool book from the mid 19th century that deals only with artificial fish breeding practices. It's quite detailed in every aspect, from collecting, fertilizing and handeling the eggs to final hatch.

He talks about several species of bass, trout and perch, just to name a few. You'll learn about all of the stages of a fishes growth. This is valuable information to have.

The author even gives you all of the details on how to build your own pond. It seems like something the average person with a little space could do.

All in all, this is a great book with over 330 pages that are packed with practical information. It really should be in your fish farming reference library.

Chapter 1 - Artificial Propogation Of Fish

Chapter 2 - Treatment Of The Eggs After Fecundation

Chapter 3 - Transportation Of The Eggs

Chapter 4 - Transportation Of The Fish

Chapter 5 - Report On Fish Culture

Chapter 6 - Report On Fish Culture II

Chapter 7 - Comments On Fish Culture

Chapter 8 - Growth Of Fish

Chapter 9 - Construction Of Ponds

Chapter 10 - Brook or Speckled Trout

Chapter 11 - Black Bass

Chapter 12 - Large-Mouth Black Bass

Chapter 13 - White Bass

Chapter 14 - Grass Bass

Chapter 15 - Rock Bass

Chapter 16 - Common Pickerel

Chapter 17 - Yellow Perch

Chapter 18 - Sun Fish

Chapter 19 - Eel

Chapter 20 - Conclusion