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Miles and Mr. Henry E. Wells have told me, that the same kind of fish 

 have made their appearance in Long Island Sound, making 18 gallons 

 of oil to the thousand fish. This is much fatter than any that I ever 

 knew iu Maine. 



PoRTSMOUTHj R. I., January 24, 1880. 



FISH Crt,TURE IN IVE\r ZEAIiAND. 



By B. J. CREIGHTOW. 



San Francisco, Cal., May 13, 1881. 

 Hon. Professor Baird, Washington^ D. C. : 



Dear Sir : I have to apologize for not returning your circular inqui- 

 ries relative to fish-culture sooner; but, as I was only j)ersonally inter- 

 ested in the colonial work of fish-culture, I was unable to do so satisfac- 

 torily'. 



I have, however, received some information from iN'ew Zealand by the 

 last mail which may jjrove interesting to you. 



Mr. J. C. Firth, of Auckland, president of the Acclimatization Society 

 there, writes to me to state that "Salmon have been caught in Wairoa 

 Eiver, about ten miles south of Auckland City. They have also ap- 

 peared in other rivers, notably the Thames, in isolated cases. [The 

 Thames is a large navigable river about fifty miles south of Auckland.] 

 I must confess to some disappointment," he adds, "in not seeing more 

 salmon, and I can only account for the circumstance by supposing that 

 one of our native fish, a most voracious fellow, the ' kawai,' has devoured 

 the young fish on the banks. I am glad to be able to rej)ort that the 

 ' whitefish' from Lake Michigan have been seen in considerable num- 

 bers in Kotorua, Tarawera, and Taupo Lakes." 



In explanation I may say that the first salmon ova (about 30,000) 

 reached Auckland in 1874 or 1875, I am not sure which. Of these a 

 few were hatched out and placed in the Wairoa. At the close of 1876, 

 I had the honor to open a correspondence with you on the subject of a 

 further shipment of salmon ova through Cross & Co., San Francisco, 

 and this and a third shipment were made, the ova being pretty widely 

 distributed north and south. 1 have had a note from Mr. Farr, secre- 

 tary of the Acclimatization Society, Christ Church, Xew Zealand, in 

 which he states that a salmon had been caught in one of the Canter- 

 bury rivers, and similar reports have come from more southerly dis- 

 tricts. Mr. Farr also reports that 30,000 young whitefish had been 

 hatched out in the society's hatching-house, and placed in a mountain 

 lake, and were doing well. 



The whitefish deposited in the large lakes of Otago, in the south of 

 Kew Zealand, have not showed themselves, but, as the conditions are 

 favorable, I have no doubt they are doing well. 



