THE SALMON.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2200, 26 May 1870, Page 2

THE SALMON.

To th". Editor of the Evening Star

Sir, — My attention having been directed to a paragraph in a late issue of your paper, in -which ray name is mentioned, as to the amount expended in the introduction of salmon ova. I beg to state that when the cost was made up, the success or non-suc-cess of the experiment was unknown, and is not yet decided, and till then, cost will remain an asset. Had the experiment been known as altogether successful, the account of cost would probably have been designated “Provincial Fisheries Account,” on the natural supposition tlmt the salmon breeding rivers and adjacent shores on our south coast, would have let and been leased as fishing stations, and at a fixed rental, as is the custom with the fisheries of Great Brp tain and Ireland, and from which fjsheriesj in Otago a ’certain and yearly increasing revenue to our Provincial Treasury would have accrued. It may also be imagined that the mere fact of even nine salmon fry having been matured and produced from the ova (besides the number supposed to have gone dawn the river), and the nine affording as stated in your paragraph a piquant breakfast to Mr Dawbin, is sufficiently' enconragin gas a componsa ion, in some degree, tor the cost up to this 1 time, and to lead to still further expenditure, and which most probably would be the means of introducing without fail the salmon into our rivers. Yours, & c.,

Pour. M‘Aslax