FISH FARMING.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 114, 19 March 1891, Page 2

FISH FARMING.

TO THK EDITOR OF TH!' STAR. Sir, — I am informed that when the Bulls Acclimatisation Society get a consignment of trout fry, they advertise that they have arrived, and that any one may hove a supply gratis, on condition that they will' place them in a suitable pond or stream. This, I consider to be most praiseworthy, and calculated to add materially to the comforts of the country settler. I have not heard of the Feilding Society doing any such thing. As they have now amalgamated with the Wellington Society and get the fry in large supplies, is there any likelihood of their following the good example of the society at Bulls"? It I ' seems that' when they get a consignment they simply turn them into the Oroua to feed the minnows and eels. In Prance it is quite common for the small farmers to have their ponds for fish, from which they can draw supplies for the table, and the United States Government have national ponds throughout the district of Columbia, under the charge of a Fish Commissioner, whose duty is to breed supplies for free distribution to all applicants wishing to start a pond, the only charge being the carriage from Washington. The Waitapu and adjoining districts are admirably suited for the construction of fish ponds, as they abound in springs, which could be damned up at a trifling expense. The ponds need not be be very large. A superficial area of about ten feet by forty would do. Of course it would depend on the number offish. In these ponds they would require to be fed, but there would be no chance of their becoming food for the eels and minnows. If, owing to a freshet, they should escape from the ponds, they would find their way into the Kiwitea or Oroua andanake sport for the residents of Feilding. lam informed that quite a number of Bettlers would gladly construct ponds if they could get the fish. — I am, &c. Rustic. Birmingham, March 18, 1891. [We will be glad to hear further from "Eustic."— Ed. F.S.]