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the opinion prevails that the sea trout, S. trutta is the sea run 
S. fario. 
About twenty years ago the speckled trout, S. fontinalis, was 
introduced and nearly all of the acclimatization societies in New 
Zealand hold a brood stock of them in their ponds. In only two 
streams of New Zealand has this species obtained a foothold— 
one in Auckland district, about fifteen miles from Rotarori and 
one in the Canterbury district. Brook trout have been caught 
with rod and line up to six pounds in weight. The failure of this 
species to become firmly established throughout New Zealand 
is attributed to the presence of the brown trout. 
About twenty-five vears ago the Auckland Acchmatization 
Society was presented with a shipment of steelhead trout eggs 
from California by the late Thomas Russell. It is reported that 
this is the only shipment of eggs of the species which has ever 
been sent to New Zealand from the United States. The eggs 
were obtained from Mr. A. V. Lamotte, who had a private fish 
hatchery at Glenn Ellen, California, and were secured from steel- 
head trout taken in Sonoma Creek. They were shipped under 
the name of rainbow trout eggs and to this day the fish is called 
rainbow trout in New Zealand. The fish hatcHed from these 
eggs were berated in streams flowing into Lakes Rotorua and 
Rotoiti, and other streams in the Waikato district. They have 
done remarkably well throughout the whole of the Aukland pro- 
vince, and lakes and streams in which brown trout existed pre- 
vious to the introduction of the steelhead trout now have nothing 
in them but the latter. They seem to have superseded the brown 
trout. The Auckland district is the only part of New Zealand 
in which the steelhead trout have done remarkably well. The 
records show that steelhead trout have been taken up to twenty- 
five pounds in weight, and fish ranging from ten to eighteen 
pounds are not an uncommon occurrence. The larger fish are 
taken by trolling. The fish generally taken with the fly range 
from two to seyen pounds in weight. Thus far there has been 
no evidence that the fish have become anadromous. 
While the steelhead trout seem to have superseded the brown 
trout in the streams and lakes of the Waikato district, the many 
attempts to introduce them in the waters of the Wellington dis- 
trict seem to have resulted in failure, due to the presence of the 
