AN ANGLER'S PARADISE. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



Referring to what has been done at home and abroad In New Zealand 

 In Tasmania Taking Salmon by machinery in America, etc. 



V/ES ! Trout culture as a means of stocking waters is a success 

 in Britain. Its benefits are already being largely felt in many 

 quarters, and it only requires to be more widely known and its 

 advantages understood, and it will be extensively taken up by 

 those who have the necessary facilities for availing themselves of 

 its benefits. Its success is proved beyond doubt, by the results 

 which have accrued of late years to the stocking or restocking of 

 waters, when judiciously done. I say judiciously done, for much 

 depends on this. 



I am aware that many sweeping assertions have been made 

 to the contrary, but results have proved them to be incorrect. 

 It is true that in bringing the matter to the successful issue that 

 it has reached there have been many failures, and it is owing 

 in a measure to some of these failures, that the results are not 

 infinitely larger to-day than is in reality the case. They are of 

 two descriptions : 



i. In many instances in which fish culture has been at- 

 tempted, it has been by persons who have carried it to a certain 

 point, where it has ended in failure or produced no appreciable 

 result, and so it has been abandoned and frequently a bad name 

 has been given to it. " No result has accrued," they say, " after 



