PISCICULTURE IN WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2047, 20 August 1885, Page 3

PISCICULTURE IN WAIKATO.

The follow ing letter has been received by Mr J. M. (Jelling, secretary of the Hamilton Domain Boa id, from Mr A. H. Shury, of Ashburton, a gentleman who has taken a deep mtoiest m pisciculture :—> ' ' ; Dkvk Sik, — In leply to your telegram to Mr John Hunt le perch ova. he has attked me to reply to yon. He will have rmicb pleasure in giving you any quantity of ova you may require on your paying pxpenspa of transit, but I do not think it can be pnfc up in boxes and sent .safely. I think it would require to be m water the whole,, time, and unlet-s tho water waa ootistttlt/yV changed I believe it would go putrid. If you can ai range with Mr T. U. Fair, Cantoibury Acclimatisation Socirtj, ' t<> look after tfie shipment and supervise it, and fnrniih cans, we would forward it by rail to hiip, to bp sent on to you, but I am vuiy doubtful if it would ever reach you in ii fit state. We have no^ ice or any appliances. It would be easier to sefld you. a few hsh. I tried to hatch some in a tank similar to those for gold fish, and it all went putiid in a week, whilst the same ova turned out hatched out well. If you communicate with Mr Farr and say I have written you, you will receive every attention. I gave Hunt the 25 tish originally, and the fourth year 1 took over 2QOO fiahi averaging (Joz each, out of the pond! A' few of the hbh being 21b? weight (with a hook), the large ones caught on a minnow and >uiiall woi in. We now constantly lake ."iO hsli to a rod in an afternoon, averaging {lb to with one or two larg^onw.^ •_ -