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mention in connection with the progress of fish culture in Ar- 

 sjentina, ahout which we have heard a good deal from Mr. Tit- 

 comb, and other sources. The inauguration of fish culture in 

 our sister republic is attributable to the interest taken l^y th'' 

 United States government, and we are therefore gratified at tlio 

 resnlts. On the occasion of the visit of Secretary Hoot to Ar- 

 gentina last winter, he was given a banqnet in Buenos Ayres, 

 at which American brook trout was served. These fish had been 

 hatched from eggs sent from this countrv^ in 1903, I believe. 

 Mr. Tulian, who is national fish culturist of Argentina, writes 

 that the American front commenced spawning a month earlier 

 in 1907 than in 1906, and np to the 10th of June of this year, 

 he had collected 200,000 brook trout eggs, nearly all from pond 

 fish, as there were no suitable nets for catching the wild fish in 

 the streams. A friend of Mr. Tulian states that he had person- 

 ally canght, with hook and line, about 200 nice brook trour 

 from little streams which ran through the field near his house, 

 and he further states that his small boys had put a gunnysack 

 across the narrow part of this stream and gone upstream and 

 driven twenty-three nice trout into the sack. They have al- 

 ready adopted American methods down there. 



A short time ago Mr. Tulian's men found an eight-inch lak- 

 trout on the shores of one of the lakes, and Mr. Tulian states 

 that many of the lakes in the region contain brook trout and 

 lake trout as well as landlocked salmon. 



One of the most significant pieces of information that the 

 committee on foreign relations has to communicate, is with re- 

 ference to New Zealand. Members of the committee are aware 

 of the long-continued efforts of the people of New Zealand to 

 introduce fish into that island, and the success of the planting 

 of rainbow trout among other fishes is well known. The local 

 government has received from the United States government 

 many consignments of eggs, most of which were taken over by 

 Mr. Lambson of our society, and Mr. Ayson, the New Zealand 

 Fish Commissioner, who is one of our corresponding members. 

 Mr. Ayson writes us that the sockeye salmon and tlie chinook 

 salmon have been successfully acclimatized in certain streams, 

 and that spawning fish have recently returned in large numbers. 



