. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . d very carefully in ice, when placed in thehatching boxes at Christchurch, in September of above year, only threehatched out. By some fatality, these three young fish escaped, and althoughtwo were captured by Mr. Hill, in a box-race, their subsequent existenceseems involved in much doubt, as nothing in the form of a report nowexists. Altogether, this experiment was a failure. The consignment oftrout ova, however, in 1868, from Tasmania, through the Otago society,seems to have been under better guidance, as 433 young trout were reare
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . d very carefully in ice, when placed in thehatching boxes at Christchurch, in September of above year, only threehatched out. By some fatality, these three young fish escaped, and althoughtwo were captured by Mr. Hill, in a box-race, their subsequent existenceseems involved in much doubt, as nothing in the form of a report nowexists. Altogether, this experiment was a failure. The consignment oftrout ova, however, in 1868, from Tasmania, through the Otago society,seems to have been under better guidance, as 433 young trout were rearedand distributed in such rivers as the Avon, Heathcote, Little Eakaia, etc.,and in Lake Coleridge. Other lots of ova were obtained from the same source,also from trout kept in confinement at the societys ponds; so that now(1880) the waters of Canterbury may be said to be fairly stocked with Sahnofario. But how have they thriven in their new habitat ? * The water used for hatching at the ponds was got from an artesian well, I believe,in Christchurch. P-H cr:. I I ^s Arthuk.—On Fish Culture in Neiv Zealand. 193 From year to year since 1876 they have been found to be so numerousand to have attained so great a size that angling has not only been per-mitted but some very excellent baskets of trout have been taken in theAvon and the Cust. In fact there could be hardly finer fishing anywhere—so far as numbers and weight go—the local Press during the season pub-lishing almost daily an account of the success of some keen angler. In1877, Mr. Farr states that he saw trout which weighed lllbs. and 141bs.,and had heard of others weighing 201bs.; and a Christchurch paper ofNovember 24th, 1880, has the following:— A trout weighing 211bs. wascaught in the Eiver Avon yesterday. I could easily add other cases of heavytrout being caught, but these will suffice to show the rate at which browntrout have gained weight in the Avon and the Cust. Supposing theheaviest of these fish to be one of
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