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The propagation and distribution of salmon and sea trout 

 under the direction of the German Fischereiverein and 

 alHed societies had the following extent in 1909. In the 

 Rhine district the salmon-egg harvest was extraordinarily 

 large, and contrary to the usual experience the lower Rhine 

 as well as the middle and upper districts w\is very pro- 

 ductive. 



}l\,fcrs stocked. Number. 



Rhine and trilnitarics — salnion fry 1,994,740 



Elbe and tributaries— salmon fry 1,239,058 



Weser and tributaries — sahnon fry 1,257,749 



Ems and tributaries — salmon fry 196,350 



Oder and tributaries— salmon fry 30,000 



Weichsel and trilnitaries— salmon fry 116,950 



Baltic Sea and tributaries— salmon fry 126,940 



Baltic Sea and tributaries— sea trout fry 134,2()0 



Baltic Sea and tributaries— sea trout lingerlings 19,500 



Total 5,115,547 



CHINOOK SALMON IN NEW^ ZEALAND. 



Extracts from a letter from L. F. Ayson, Commissioner 

 of Fisheries, Wellington, New Zealand, dated August 30, 

 1909: 



You will be i)leascd to learn that the chinook salmon are 

 showing up hrst rate in our rivers. Several have been 

 caught by anglers during the trout season at the mouth of 

 the Waitaki River, and \vt had quite a good run of spawning 

 fish up in 1908 and again this year. The first spawning 

 salmon came up in 1906, and the run has been better every 

 season since then. We find that most of the fish spawn 

 in the large tributaries of the Waitaki and in the 

 main river itself: and we ha\'e traced them right up 

 to the lakes at the head of l>kapo River and tlnotigh Lake 

 Ohau, and have found them spawning in the rivers which 

 flow into the lake. \'ery few fish come into the smaller 

 streams, such as the Hakataramea, to spawn: and as it is 

 only in the smaller triliutaries that we can trap or net 

 them our collection of eggs has not amounted to much. 

 This season we took 238,000 eggs from fish ranging from 

 8 to 26 pounds in weight. The eggs w^ere as large as those 



