DISCUSSION. 



Mr. H. Stephenson SiMiTH. I would like to add, with your permission, sir, as New 

 Zealand is a country very remote from this, and as many, perhaps, of my hearers do not 

 know much about its geographical and topographical features, that the country covers 

 approximately 15° of latitude, almost due north and south. It has over 5,000 miles of 

 seaboard; it is interspersed with water courses. In a large portion of that country you 

 will find a mountain stream every mile. We have also some arterial rivers, running 400, 

 500, 600, and 700 miles, in some cases navigable short distances from the mouth, and 

 they are all tidal rivers. The majority of the smaller streams which run into the eastern 

 and western streams are not tidal rivers, but are fed by glaciers from the mountains. 

 The whole seaboard is indented with bays and harbors, the rivers coming down on each 

 side; and the lakes extend from one side of the islands to the other. Some of the rivers 

 are of considerable size for a country of that extent ; and we have chains of lakes running 

 for hundreds and hundreds of miles. 



It would seem to me, as a man who knows little about fish except to eat them, that 

 that country should afford facilities for producing fish of the very best kind and of almost 

 any quantity. It also seems to me that there is plenty of food for the fish. The sur- 

 face of the lakes and streams is covered with flies and many varieties of little insects all 

 the year around; and the rivers never run dry, but are everlasting streams, winter and 

 summer. I thank you very much for your kind attention. 



Mr. John W. Titcome. One thought suggests itself to me: The results from the 

 acclimatization of the chinook salmon perhaps are the most remarkable thing in the 

 paper; but it is said that the rainbow trout, so-called, which is so very generally dis- 

 tributed now in New Zealand, is not the rainbow trout {Salmo irideus), but the steelhead 

 trout {Salmo gairdneri) . 



Prof. Edw.'vrd E. Prince. My name was down, I believe, for a communication a day 

 or two ago, but my engagements officially have been so very pressing that I have with 

 difficulty arrived even at this late hour. If you will permit me, I wish to bring a fra- 

 ternal message from Canada to this important gathering, and I take this first opportunity 

 of doing so. 



One important reason why I would like to say a few words in regard to Mr. Ayson's 

 paper is because I have been personally interested in this work of Mr. Ayson in New 

 Zealand. He has several times visited Canada, and I have spent a good deal of time 

 with him on those visits. I arranged for supplies of salmon eggs to be shipped to that 

 distant part of the world, and I have always felt, as every fish culturist on this continent 

 has, a very warm regard for him and his fishery work. 



To sum up the great success of these efforts in New Zealand : Its rivers correspond in 

 many features with those of the Pacific coast ; many of them are glacial and have abund- 

 ance of snow water, and there are other features which Mr. Smith referred to in the few 

 remarks he made which correspond to the waters on this continent. But it seems that 

 on the whole the planting of salmon has not been so successful as the trout, and it has 

 always seemed to me one reason was in the lack of proper feeding grounds. There may 

 be abundant food for them in the streams where they were planted as fry, but when out at 

 sea they are literally "at sea;" they do not know where to go to get the appropriate food 



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