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NEW ZEALAND.* 
When the Britons first settled in New Zealand they found 
beautiful clear water streams fed from snow-clad mountains 
which contained very few and inferior fresh water fishes. Ac- 
climation societies were formed and through them shipments of 
eggs of various species of Salmonidae were imported with vary- 
ing success. 
The brown trout was introduced in New Zealand about thirty 
years ago. The first shipment was from England to Tasmania 
and from eggs obtained at Tasmania the stock was obtained for 
New Zealand waters. Later shipments of brown trout eggs were 
sent direct from England to New Zealand. With the exception 
of the Auckland district, brown trout have been put into almost 
every stream in the south and as a result there is excellent brown 
trout fishing in almost every district. Within certain distances 
of the sea in all east coast rivers brown trout have become ana- 
dromous, going down to the sea after spawning and living there 
all summer, returning in the autumn. These fish are frequently 
taken by fishermen in nets when fishing for indigenous marine 
fishes. The fishermen say that they are caught in from five to 
seven fathoms of water. In handling them for stripping they 
have run from five to twenty-two pounds in weight. They are 
very much esteemed by the sportsmen. They take the fly readily 
but not more so than the steelhead trout; in the lower regions 
they are taken by casting the ordinary spinner. Brown trout are 
also found in lakes of the south. Records show the weight of the 
lake trout to be twenty-seven pounds. 
Several importations of Loch Leven trout eggs direct from 
the hatchery of Sir James Gibson, Howieton, Scotland, have been 
made. The fish hatched from these eggs were held as brood 
stock in the ponds of the various acclimatization societies, and 
the young fish from the brood stock thus obtained were liberated 
in the streams—sometimes in the same rivers with brown trout. 
Commissioner Ayson states that where the Loch Leven trout has 
been introduced into the same stream with the brown trout it 
has been impossible to note any difference in the two species. A 
few Scotch sea trout have been introduced into New Zealand and 

*The Committee is indebted to Mr. L. F. Ayson, Fish Commissioner 
of New Zealand, for most of the information following. 
