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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1384, 25 July 1872, Page 2

The following is from the LytteltonTimes, 18th July:—The trout in the Acclimatisation gardens are now spawning, and that poivion of the gardens, where the-ponds are-situated is closedto the public. Already a great number of eggs bavo been deposited by the fish, but as the latter are of the large rivervariety the total yield of spawn will, not be equal to what would have resulted from the ordinary brook-trout. The large river trout only produce about 200 eggs per.fish, whiKt the-brook-trout average quite 1,000 each. There are from fifty to sixty trout iuthe gardens, but as the greater portion of the-e are male fishes, it is not possible that more than about 5,000- eggswill be spawned. A considerablequantity of the eggs has been deposited in the ponds in two or three large spawning beds; whilst Mr Johnson has taken some ova artificially, and ha» placed it in the boxes in the fish-house for ha'ching out, an operation •vhich is expected will be completed in about a month from the present time. Whilst on the subject we may also state that two goodly sized spawning beds havabeen detected in the river Avon.