ACCLIMATIZATION OF TROUT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1746, 11 May 1906, Page 3

ACCLIMATIZATION OF TROUT.

HOPE FOB THE FLY FISHEB. (To the Editor Gisborne Times.) Sir, —Twelve years ago the Poverty Bay Acclimatization Booiety presented the Kiore Sheepfarmiog Company with a few thousand brown and rainbow trout ova. Nearly all were successfully hatched, and three quarters were turned into the Pakarae river and a tributary creek as fry. The remainder were reared in trenches with an arrangement.of perforated zinc, sluioes and outlets, and were periodio ally fed for some months. When turned into the Pakarae by Messrs Hood and Kenway they numbered from 800 to 400, aud measured from two inobes to nine inobes. About a quarter, pf them were rainbows. Since then an odd fish has been seen from time lo time in a deep river pool, and one was known to be alive in a vory email bash creik,i>ut it was thought probable that these were the original fish. There is now, however, what seems to be most reliable eVidsnce that in one small crerk natives d" fortnight ago speared or caught in a basket six good fisb, and saw many more. Of these some were rainbows and some browa trout. They were described as beiDg up to 18 inches long and in fine condition The above facts are not proof of success, but they at least are enough to give the local fly man a ray of much needed hope. The natives have been warned to kill no more, or at any rate to give them a ohanoe to increase a bit first. There is, however, no native srttlemont in the neighborhood.— Yours, etc., P.T.K.