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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17471, 3 June 1922, Page 10

A salmon weighing 23 pounds has been caught in a New Zealand river (says a writer in the "British Australasian"). Some of the New Zealand lake trout weigh more than that, but the salmon are evidently coming on. For very many years they appeared to bo a dead failure in New Zealand, where the trout flourished so amazingly, and all the young fry released in the rivers went to the sea or otherwise disappeared. However, they have come back again now, and salmon fishing will Boon take its place with trout fishing and deer stalking, as one of the attractions to sportsmen in Maoriland. No fish culture society has yet taken up my pet project of trying to acclimatise the Australian black fish in English' rivers and ponds. I hope some day it will be done, for the blat/k fish is unexcelled in flavour. The English trout is making thingd uncomfortable for him in his Australian -home, and it is a pity to see in England all these deep and sluggish waters beloved of black fish, with hardly a finned thing in them fit to eat.