CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3905, 5 September 1891, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

|To the Editor.] Sir,—Referring to to the local in your, issue of yesterday re "great dis> satistaction expressed by anglers, Ac," I have to inform any dissatisfied ones that all spawning moved by me to the ponds have, wtoe yielding their ova, been returned to their several streams, and by way of interest, I have added to this number some hundred of large fish and yearlings of different kinds, and by way of compound interest have added the following number of fry from the season's hatching:— Ruamahanga, 20,000 American Brook Char, 9000 Loch Leven; Waipoua, 8.000 Ameri* can Brook Char; Makoura, 6000 Am" erioan Brook Char; Waingawa, 10,000 American Brook Char, This is, how* ever, only a very small portion of the fry allotted by the way of com* pound interest Those anglers who expressed dissatisfaction to you are perhaps not aware that in Britain, America, and in all countries - on the Continent of Europe where artificial fish hatching is carned out on a largq soale, ova is obtained, every spawning season, from river fish in a similar manner to that practiced here; and your generally may be interested to kno«j£2 that with the most modern and a knowledge of pisciculture it is a common occurrence to batch 90 per cent of young fish from healthy ova, while by the natural spawning in the" rivers it is estimated that not more •• than 5 per cent is obtained. I am etc,

L. F. Ayson, Curator Masterton Fish Hatohery.