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and the mass of fallen timber obstructing 

 the streams affording efficient protection to 

 the fish, but interfering with the project of 

 collecting ova for distribution. It is here, 

 however, that a permanent source of supply 

 must be looked for, and means should be 

 taken to watch the upper waters and note 

 where the fish are making their nests, a 

 spectacle they are not in the least chary 

 of exhibiting to human ken — at least, in 

 our part of the world — so engrossed are 

 they with the anxieties and excitements of 

 the interesting event. The need for ob- 

 taining a supply from the river becomes 

 more evident when we learn that latterly 

 an increasing proportion of the ova from 

 the imprisoned fish have proved infertile, 

 and every effort is now being made to 

 effect this. 



Little is yet known of the ultimate 

 results of the shipments to New Zealand, 

 but about the middle of the year 1874 a 

 salmon grilse, weighing more than three 

 pounds, was taken in the river Molyneux 

 (Otago), no doubt the offspring of a pair 



