THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



Tumut, and the stretch from the Junction, of Jonnama Creek to 

 seven or eight miles below the Budlong Falls, according to the 

 report of the Club, abounds in trout. 



It is a remarkable fact that New Zealand, a beautiful country 

 with abundant water, splendid streams, had practically no game 

 fishes when originally discovered. It is now well stocked : 

 salmon and Loch Leven trout from England, and many American 

 fishes including the rainbow, Chinook salmon, brook trout, white- 

 fish, sock-eye salmon, Sabago Lake salmon, Mackinaw trout, 

 lake herring and catfish. The rainbow trout has been particu- 

 larly successful, specimens weighing twenty pounds having been 

 caught ; these from a little stream running into Lake Tarawera. 

 They are abundant in Lakes Eolorua and Eotoiti. The Chinook 

 now spawns in the Hakatar river, and anglers have taken the 

 Chinook at the mouth of the Waitaki Eiver. An interesting 

 fact was developed here. The eggs of chinook were from winter 

 run salmon in the^IJnited States, and so far, in New Zealand there 

 has been no summer run. Mr. Agson, inspector of fisheries 

 for New Zealand, says : 



' The value of the introduction of these foreign fresh-water fishes into 

 New Zealand waters cannot be estimated. Formerly it was a country 

 where rivers and lakes were devoid of fresh-water fish of any value ; now 

 they are teeming with fish of the finest quahty for sport and food. AH 

 this has been attained partly by the perseverance of our own people and 

 by the generous assistance given our Government by the United Statea 

 Bureau of Fisheries and its officers, in supplying any fish eggs required.' 



New Zealand has a great future as an angling paradise. It 

 has five thousand miles of sea coast, and it is difficult to travel a* 

 nule without finding a stream, most of which are rivers fed from 

 glaciers, hence never dry. There are countless lakes and 

 chains of them, capable of supplying fresh-water fishes of all 

 kinds. 



In Sydney, Australia, the sea anglers of the various clubs, 

 one of which is the Kuriwa, have sport with a large bream-Uke 

 fish called the Schnapper, which resembles a Florida reef porgy, 



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