TROUT IN SCOTLAND: A STORY OF BROWN TROUT RESEARCH AT PITLOCHRY. By K.A. Pyefinch.

1960 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 212mm) paperback. Ppix,70. B/w photographs, folding charts, maps, illustrations.

"This is an account for the general reader of work on brown trout for which he as taxpayer has been responsible and which has been carried out over the past 10 years at the Freshwater Fisheries (formerly Brown Trout Research) Laboratory ...It concerns therefore the rivers and freshwater lochs which are ...the home of our salmonid fishes, of the salmon and the sea trout which spawn within them but grow most notably in the sea, and of the brown trout which spends its entire life within them. ...We have known all too little about their life and habits and have been ignorant about how best to conserve this great natural asset". Chapters include: Early stages in the life history; The immature fish; Maturity and spawning; Life history after spawning; Environment of the trout; The water; The plankton and water plants; The bottom fauna; The improvement of trout fisheries; Practical applications; Appendices - description of places where investigations have been made, freshwater biology in Scotland and the origin of the Brown Trout Research Laboratory.