The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1874.

Dunstan Times, Issue 648, 18 September 1874, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1874.

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As out neighbors at the Wakatip we exerting to stock the waters of their district with fish, it occurs to us that as trout ova, almost on the point of hatching, may he obtained from the Otago Acclimatization Society merely for the trouble of asking, the people of Clyde and Cromwell might not do better than set themselves to a similar task. Lakes Wanaka and Hawea and the clear mountain streams of the Upper Clutha, Lindis, Nevis, Bannockburn and the Fraser Paver want badly stocking with edible members of the finny tribe, and there can be no doubt but, that, if once introduced they would thrive amazingly. The hatching process is a most simple one, and merely consists of running a stream of pure limpid water through a small box in which the ova is deposited on a fine gravelly bed about one inch deep, when if only hatched successfully, the fish will live in the box for six -weeks without any further attention than the constant supply of pure water ; they may then be safely liberated and permitted to forage for themselves or transported to their appointed destination. We should hope that no question of rival local jealousy will crop up to interfere with the carrying out of so desirable an object as the stocking of these waters with fish, the enormous benefits to be derived from which it is impossible to over-estimate, and if we are to take the disciples of good old Isaac Walton as our guide, the capture of the finny tribe is wonderfully pro ductive of good feeling and brotherly love amongst men. To make a trial there is no better time or opportunity, the expense would be most trifling, and by means of a private subscription, or at the joint expense of the two Corporations the thing might be easily accomplished. The fecundity of fish is so great that if once a small family of them could only be established, they would in a very fowyears prove a very great and valuable addition to our food supply, and we were only reading the other day in a Victorian newspaper that, a period of only three years elapsed between a small number of perch being intro duced into a Lake near Ballarat, and eighty tons of that fish having been hauled out by the rod of the angler. The pleasure this sport would produce in the Dunstan district would act most beneficially towards its interests, and residents of this and adjoining neighborhoods, instead of betakening themselves to Town to enjoy a holiday would be found finding agreeable recreation nearer home, in the neighborhood of the upper waters of the Clutha. Many little streams, not mentioned here, would be found amply large enough for the future homo of trout and perch; while, many an agreeable meal, the result of a few hours healthful enjoyment, would be obtainable by the hard wrought mine) 1 or over-tasked business man, that under present circumstances, either for love or money, he cannotpossibly hope to enjoy. In Southland and Shag Valley, as well asin numerousstreams within a few miles of Dunedin these fish have been most successfully introduced, and the same has been the result in the Province of Canterbury, while, now that ova is plentiful, and the process of hatching it thoroughly understood, there should be no hesitation about the people of Cromwell and Clyde undertaking a task which they have the example of others to assist them in carrying out. We feel assured that if Mr W. D. Munson, the editor of the Daily Times, and chairman of the Otago Acclimatization Society was only applied to, he would, as in other cases, be only too glad to assist in so desirable an object ns the stocking of the tributaries and head waters of the Clutha with fish-