ACCLIMATISATION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 107, 8 May 1869, Page 2

ACCLIMATISATION.

[The following letter from Sit Robert Officer, Chief Salmon Commissioner of Tasmania to the Secretary of our Acclimatisation Society, has been kindly placed &t our disposal by Mr. Huddleston.] - .-. - ,"' jMj '$?*&: touch' pfeasu^fe in ;l^rifi^ i tl^e : '^rb^eM i -V)^*y6jSr^Wdel^kii&g-'^i the' trout ihto "your 'Province,' anti^beg; to thank you for your kind attention in- wrMng; to met-,: I rejbice-tojearn.tfiatiybu Kate been so.' successful in conveying.the Ova from our ponds ; to yours, and in : hatching so large a portion of: tb^m. Having seen,' hoVe ; yer,*ihe skill and care : ..With which you made airangemeats for the transport of the Ova, I ney,er, had any,, doubt p£ your : success, which! you both deserved and commanded. In a few" years your stock Of trout wiU be nfm-.-hfered*^>y 'tens' of ithou«ands. *- Our. fishybf the same kind have continued to increase in sizeand ; numbers > in *'a ''surprising 'iSanniefit't During the i present sea'-on">weihaye.rsupplied from eight to ten thousand fry to .other localities. .We have iibt yefsucce'eded'in capturing a. ■'salmon, but within' the -last month they have; been seen by a host of oVseryers' in themost' distinct manner -in* the same: parit^ of the river, ; near the mouth of the-Plenty, -where in previous i years thejr ; exhibited >. themselves; - in so ■, - conspicuous a manner. All. our attempts to use <>ur • net^-have hitherto-provedjabortiye.; We have never; been/able tp draiv themjmbrei'than. a fjew : yards without finding them entangled.ani.9ng the rocks that.'every^here^aboiind in 4 the river.; "-Nori3"hasi -the^rod .beeoi^niora .-^effective. .; - The ; •fishi;seem, chiefly 7 to the , deep stiH reaches -where theja^tiflojial .fly; -would * tempt them^in rain. ..However, it can hardly bejdoubted-rthat in-some way.; or. othejr we rfiall i get one at, theseilsh' inW 6ujc,liands jat n^f dMa nt ■ I.■ date:.. '" ; -T^f 1': : :• - .>/■'■ , -- ; In the meantime yrempstbecontent with the 1 krefragable!liprdof »t|^^sess :> pf , their ; '■ increase. .One': pf tne attituaes in I thetf qprM,l^ ifin,^ a^pctr|ip s n ,,f^ : ana ! "sometimes ottheObacKi juste gut ot^thTfeßtream. it At/othCT ti&^they- ,^ i ' clear.x>ut of ;oh%^a*^exlubltiajjj-tb:eir ;"silyery;;