418 Fortieth Annual Meeting 



Early in May Mr. Funke came to see me again and told 

 me he had recently observed these trout a number of times, 

 and that he had also seen steelhead and rainbow trout which 

 we had planted in the same waters from the La Cumbre 

 hatchery in October, 1908, and that these last named trout 

 were from 10 to 20 centimeters in length. 



That the brook trout planted in the Rio Santa Cruz and 

 tributaries in 1906 have prospered very well indeed there is 

 no doubt. The second chief of this section caught two very 

 line specimens, male and female, from the Rio Santa Cruz 

 below the hatchery in March of this year. These specimens 

 were 30 and 34 centimeters long, respectively, and were in 

 excellent condition. He also received reports that a con- 

 siderable number of other trout had been taken from the 

 Rio Santa Cruz at various times by people who were fishing 

 with nets for the "trucha criolla" and pejerrey. The 

 "ayudante" in charge of the hatchery at Santa Cruz wrote 

 me under date of April 30, 1909, that a number of trout 

 had recently been caught in the Rio Santa Cruz, and judg- 

 ing from the description given they were probably of the 

 different varieties which have been planted from the Santa 

 Cruz hatchery at various times during the past three years, 

 namely, brook, rainbow, and lake trout. On the 20th of 

 April he was shown one of the trout caught and he tells me 

 it was a brook trout, and a very fine, healthy specimen, a 

 female measuring 36 centimeters long and containing a 

 large number of nearly mature eggs which he judged would 

 be deposited about the middle of May. 



Good reports of the work done by the Nahuel Huapi 

 hatchery are being continually received, but I need mention 

 only a few to show the success of the work there. About 

 the last of December, 1908, the "ayudante" in charge of the 

 station at Nahuel Huapi, wrote me that he had been at 

 Lago Traful planting trout in the waters of that region, 

 and that while there he had done some rod and reel fishing, 

 using both artificial flies and minnows. One evening while 

 using an artificial fly in the Rio Traful, about one league 



