Trout by James Owen

Author:James Owen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books

A shoal of hatchery-raised rainbow trout.

Trout farming from the outset was primarily a means for replenishing rivers and lakes, and stocking waters where trout had not existed before, but following the Second World War the emphasis shifted to food production. The ravages of war left Western Europe hungry and rationed, and on the lookout for new, intensive farming methods to maximize yields. The cultivated trout was an obvious candidate. Besides its capacity for mass production, there was an assured market for a fish whose culinary stock had risen since its association with the gentlemanly art of fly-fishing. In England, where the trout was nurtured and preserved for the sporting enjoyment of the ruling classes, it had an aura of refinement and exclusivity. The trout, Mrs Beeton wrote in her best-selling Book of Household Management (1861), is ‘esteemed by the moderns for its delicacy’. Conversely, the once prized and eminently farmable carp, eulogized by Izaak Walton as ‘the queen of rivers’, had sunk to the status of ‘coarse’ fish, which in Britain means practically inedible. Today the uk is one of the major trout-farming nations (others include Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Norway and Spain).

The Wisconsin Conservation Commission makes a rail delivery of trout fry, 1921.

A custom-built American ‘fish car’ used for ferrying live trout, 1916.

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