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liatchcd out from tliet^e eggs were planted iii streams which come 

 down from the snowy Southern Alp Mountains and ilow into 

 tlie head of Lake Ohan. Three years after planting reports 

 <-anic down from the manager of a sheep ranch in that territory 

 that a school of fish were spawning in April, and quite a number 

 of dead hsh were about. We were, however, unable to obtain 

 a specimen and verify the report. About the middle of April 

 tliis season tish made their appearance again. The same man 

 went out to the nearest telegraph station and wired to me that a 

 large school of fish were up, that quite a lot of dead fish were 

 al)oiit. and tliat lie liad 14 caught .and enclosed in a pool. I at 

 once sent the manager of the Hakataramea government salmon 

 station up, and he found quite a lot of fish about^ — a good many 

 dead, and all the others which he handled were spawned fish. 

 They were sockeye salmon all right, and fish running from 31/2 

 to (ii/L' pounds in weight. Our manager brought 6 specimens 

 down for identification and they stood the test, Sir James Hector 

 and other authorities pronouncing them to be sockeye salmon. 

 These fish are the progeny of the fish planted in 1902, and we 

 may take it for granted that they are estal)leshed in our waters. 



Lake Ohau is one of the branches of the Waitaki Eiver and, 

 as I have indicated in this letter, it is fed by rivers which come 

 down from the snowy mountains. 



With regard to whitefish, next summer I purpose netting the 

 two lakes which we have Ix'cn trying to stock with them. I feel 

 pretty confident that we Avill take some good whitefish in the 

 nets. 



F i s h Culture in Japan. 



The Bureau of Fisheries received through diplomatic chan- 

 nels a request for a consignment of rainbow trout eggs for the 

 imperial preserves at Xikko, Japan. The eggs, 87,500 in mmi- 

 ber, were supplied from the Leadville station and sliipt in Juno, 

 1907, from Seattle to Yokohama. 



The most important branch of fish culture conducted uiK'^er 

 government auspices in Japan is salmon hatchiug. The hatch- 

 eries are in northern Japan, and the Avorlv is ad(h-est chiefly to 

 the dog salmon (0. heta) , the most abundant species, the catch 

 of which amounts to about 3,000,000 fish annually. Until a few 



