Report On the Fresh Water Fish And Fisheries of India And Burma
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and this is said not to be " waste" because they are eaten! XXII. On the Himalayas grain is, in places at least, Mills worked by water-power: ground in mills moved by water-power email fish destroyed there. (para. 33), which is effected by constructing small canals, into which the water of streams is diverted as in irrigation works. Into these canals, termed kools, numbers of fry and even large fishes find their way, as there are no obstructions at the mouths of these kools to prevent their entrance. The mill-owner cuts off the water at his pleasurej and all the contained fish are left dry. Tanks Useful As Fisheries. XXIII. Of tanks (see para. XI), there are those which are always in connection with Tanks useful as fisheries. , . , such running water as rivers and works of irrigation; or those in which thi
...s communication only exists during the monsoon time: whilst others are entirely unconnected. First, there are those which are always in connection with running water, which are generally useful as breeding-places for the non-migratory forms of fishes, and merely require a little care to be taken as to how they are worked, in order to render them exceedingly valuable as fisheries. The second sort of tanks, or those in which communication with running water only exists during the monsoon time, are of two distinct forms: in the first, they always, or nearly always, contain water, whilst in the second, they are dry, or almost so, except during the rains. Fish obtain access to both these forms of tanks during the monsoons and breed there; but in the last, so soon as all communication with the running water has ceased, they become practically isolated, and unless they happen to be of such varieties as bury themselves in the mud (para. XLIV) during the dry month...
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