FISH, in natural history. See NATURAL HISTORY. Breeding of Fishes may be turned to great advantage; for besides furnishing your table, obliging your friends, and raising money, your land will be thereby greatly improved, so as to yield more this way than by any other employment whatever.
When fish are fed in large pools or ponds, either malt boiled, or fresh grains, is the best food; thus carps may be raised and fed like capons, and tenches will feed as well. The care of feeding them is best committed to a gardener or the butler, who should be always at hand. In a stew, any sort of grain boiled, especially peas, and malt coarse ground; also the grains after brewing, while fresh and sweet: but one bushel of malt not brewed, will go as far as of grains. See FISH-POUND, infra.