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we imported from Sacramento salmon, and they hatched 

 out splendidly. So far we find that the salmon hegin to 

 spawn about the second week in April, and that they are all 

 finished by the end of Ma}-. Hiese months would corres- 

 pond with October and Xovember with \-ou. Would you 

 call this an autumn or winter run? I understand that all 

 the salmon eggs we had from America were from winter- 

 run fish. 



You probably know that we put all the salmon hatched 

 from im[)()rted eggs into the Waitaki Rix'er, and we now 

 find the fish spreading along the coast and going into other 

 rivers. Young salmon of one pound weight have also l)een 

 caught by fishermen in some of the bays along the east coast, 

 so there is every probability of all the rivers which are 

 suitable along that section being stocked with them. 



PROGRESS OF FISH CULTURE IN ARGENTINA. 



An interesting note on some of the results of fish acclimati- 

 zation in Argentina has been sent by Mr. E. A. Tulian, 

 national fisli culturist. The first fish eggs were hatched in 

 this country in January, 1^^04; and an account of the incep- 

 tion of the work appears in a prex'ious numl)er of the Trans- 

 actions. Under date of June 3, 1909, Air. Tulian wrote 

 that up to that time the season's take of American brook 

 trout eggs was 300,000, and that 200,000 to 300,000 addi- 

 tional eggs would probably be obtained. These eggs are from 

 wild fish. Alany fine examples of l)rook trout and land-locked 

 salmon have been caught, one female brook trout weighing 

 5 pounds and measuring 18 inches, and a female land-locked 

 salmon measuring 16 inches in length; these fish had 

 recently spawned. At another stream several brook trout 

 14 inches long were taken, one a female full of eggs. The 

 trout ha\'e been planted from the streams of the Andes 

 directly north of the Patagonian border of Argentina to its 

 most northern province, which is entirely in the tropics ; the 

 mountains being so high as to have snow to keep the streams 

 cool in mid-summer of a tropical climate. 



