ACCLIMATISATION OF SALMON.
The Acclimatisation Society have completed their new "fish-house" for the reception of the large shipment of salmon ova that is to arrive from California by the next mail steamer. It is in a secluded part of the Domain, and is well shaded from the heat of the sun. There are two sheds, one to be used as the " hatching-house," and the other as a "nursery" for the young fish. The former consists of a connected series of wooden troughs, about 2J feet long by 0 inches in width, ranged one row higher than another, and the whole well filled by pipes with water constantly flowing through from a clear well in the vicinity of the sheds. The shipment will comprise about 250,000 ova, but 100,000 are to be sent on to Canterbnry. The accommodation in the Domain will be sufficient for about 80,000 ova. The remaining 70,000 will be distributed through various parts of the province. A large quantity is to be sent, we believe, to the Upper Thames. The nursery consists of concrete tanks laid one above another, upon which a running water system is laid in the same way. The curator of the Canterbury Society will be in Auckland awaiting the arrival of the steamer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4667, 28 October 1876, Page 5
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