FISHERIES INSPECTOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 35, 4 May 1927, Page 11

FISHERIES INSPECTOR

MR. AYSON RETIRES NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS With the retirement on Saturday of M.. Lake Falconer Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, ends the active career of a man whose work in introducing- the quinnat and the Atlantic “J Jn *n to New Zealand waters won the admiration of authorities the world over. Hia work was not confined to those ? 8ft * * le was actively interested in the /J rout brou « ht to New Zealand by the Otago Acclimatisation Society; he saved the North Island oyster beds irom extermination and made their artineial cultivation a success; in a host of other ways he did work of the greatest value to New Zealand fisheries. silt!! 8 retirement does not come as a pr ij e ’ for be * s old man now, Cttf y ears » of age. He was born in in* '£°\ and early took a deep interest naileries, subsequntly joining the trm * rn / llen t service as curator of rou\ hatcherif * s *‘ He made several enfm °* America on beh alf of the Gov- _ nment in connection with the decherks ent ° f the Xew Zealand hat ~ m ° st notable work has been, of **’ the salmon. Professor i,, \ * be Canadian expert, who was lu ,r Zo . a l a nd some years ago, was rbOAr.fi pra * se that achievement. As lust year, Dr. C. 11. GilI’ntL. o sor ot Zoology at Stanford f W c J ty (California), and Mr. John ich£_ ock - of British Columbia '‘ri«. ri S an of the International Fishi,u,„ Commission), added their triw mle they were on holiday here. salrnn 6 , esta hlishment of the quinnat dH* "i y° l >r waters,” said Mr. Badtnati.J? a mas ter-stroke in the acclitotah'o*° n —° ne ot fho most 'raters ac , e y ements effected in any whh-h tv, I s the °ul.v instance in fun.. ..... y Quinnat has been succession thl a^ llahe<l in an y waters other flea, aciflc coas t of North AmeI) the quinna t salmon we have ; * r ® Quit* here in New Zealand oil and % equal in colour, richness of north - \vesf lV ° llr t 0 the best on the We l \f t coast North America.” 1116 Salmon Aysona Work is over, and “Ur v, 1 t..,. n . are saf ely established in note that 3 A bu * il is satisfactory to fish i. h ' the Ayson interest in the Particirtati n ° (neans ended, for active C0I »«from Mr c t r h e 4 wor k will still Tetirecl L ‘ Ayson > sun of the °f the <> inß n ec tor, who, in charge HaßatarHrr, ern| nent’s hatcheries at himself " in Canterbury, is Rented ♦vi CP 4 S rt ' He also has re ~ V>e interpuo bovern ment abroad, in Series. oC tbe New Zealand