FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. 



as I have said, the fisheries generally where they do exist 

 are not cultivated a they should be'. Hence, turn where we 

 may, sport is not what it could and 1 should be. 



This state of affairs cries aloud fofl amendment. If there 

 were no demand for the importing rights of waters containing 

 Salmonidse, and if salmon and trout were not valuable addi- 

 tions to the Nation's food supply, I could understand, although 

 I could not appreciate, this neglect. But, seeing that large 

 rentals accrue to the proprietors of salmon and trout waters for 

 sporting purposes, that the fish command a high price in the 

 food market, that in both instances the demand greatly exceeds 

 the supply, and thajt, consequently, waters containing Sal- 

 mcnidse are a valuable asset to any and every estate, and to 

 the Nation at large, one is quite at a loss to understand the 

 apathy that exists. 



Perhaps I should rather have said did exist ; for at the pre- 

 ssnt time there are indications of seme interest being taken in 

 fish-culture and the formaton of fisheries in this country. 

 Genuine enthusiasm is wanting aonong us, but something bet- 

 ter than mere spaismodio efforts is in evidence; and one is 

 encouraged to believe that the present wave of interest in pisci- 

 culture is likely to gather fence. The formation, and cul- 

 tivation of sporting waiters lies to the hand of the estate owners 

 and their tenants ; the future of this valuable National asset 

 rests really with them, and to this fact some proprietors would 

 appear to be wakening up. All of them are not anglers, but 

 all have friends who are, and from, their own or from other's 

 experience they are realising the value of sporting waters. 

 They are discovering also that the requisite management need 

 not entail heavy outlay. When this is recognised, sot also is 

 the folly of having miles of water flow barren to the sea, which 

 at comparatively small cost might teem with fish, or of allow- 

 ing a sporting water to be depleted because of the failure to 

 expend upon it a few pounds annually. 



Many proprietors within the last few years have made a 

 start with practical experiments ; many more are 1 on the eve 

 of doing so. But the problems of fish-culture are many, and 



