Identifier: americanfishespo1888good (find matches)
Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes -- North America
Publisher: New York, Standard book company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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from Japan are reared by the Fish Commission as well as the silveryand the parti-colored forms, silver and gold. Mr. Seal has by artificialselection produced some grotesque forms, surpassing even them of Japan. The Gold-fish and its Culture, by Hugo Mulertt, of Cincinnati, isa book worthy of a place by the side of every aquarium. Henry W. Elliott,of Cleveland, has had fine success in hatching then in open, ornamentalponds, and has desc ribed his experience in the Bulletin of the UnitedStates Fish Commission. 4i8 AMERICAN FISHES. It is very interesting to a fish culturist to visit the sites of mediaevalabbeys in England and trace out the remains of the immense stews orponds in which the provident monks of old were wont to rear Carp andTench and eels. The pond culture of England in the Middle Ages wasvery extensive, but has not been resumed in later days. On the conti-nent, especially in Germany, however, it has been continued, and thereare many excellent treatises on Teichwirthschaft.
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THE TENCH. The Tench, Tinea vulgaris, the Schleihe of Germany, and the Tancheof France has already become acclimated in our waters, particularly in thePotomac, and will soon be available for the uses of anglers. It frequentsstreams and ponds with muddy bottoms, and is partial to weedy places.It is exceedingly tenacious of life, and even when grown in foul water hasdelicate white flesh, which many prefer to that of the Carp. Both Tenchand Carp are better if kept in clear, cool water for a few days, and theslime should be washed off their scales with warm water before they are ,cooked. I have eaten the Schlei in Bremen, and can speak well of itfor m flavor and texture it resembles the American bluefish. Mypraise is, however, but feeble compared with that of Badham, who writes : In spite of the prejudice entertained by some Italian doctors, and allthe old women of Italy, who believe this fish to be so impregnated withmarsh malaria as necessarily to engender ague. Nessuno mangia tencaChe

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