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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1650, 14 October 1903, Page 64

As to the suggestion in a- Gisborne paper that- the failure to stock the rivers of Poverty Bay with trqjut was owing to quantities of slieepdip water finding their way to the streams and poisoning the fish when young,Mr Ayson, Inspector of Fisheries, states that this may have a fatal effect on the trout fry, if they are placed in the river near tlie cfutlet of a slieepdip In his opinion the real cause of the failure of the fry to survive in the rivers and streams of certain districts is the oareless manner in which they are distributed. The habit of the fry is to remain together at the spot where they are placed in the river, and in such case it is not infrequent that the whole may fall victims to eels, whereas the risk from loss in this way is lessened by careful distribution. Mr Ayson is of opinion that tlie it vers of Poverty Bay should be stocked from near their sources away up in the hills, where the stream runs clear over a clean bottom. Lower down the rivers pm over a papa bottom that is easily fouled', and not at all conducive to the health of trout fry. In proof that the waters of tlie East Coast are highly suited to trout culture, it may be stated that Lime Waikaremoana is at present teeming with good-sized fish.