AN ANGLERS PARADISE. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
Referring to what has been done at home and abroad—In New Zealand— 
In Tasmania—Taking Salmon by machinery in America, ete. 
ES! Trout culture as a means of stocking waters is_a success 
in Britain. Its benefits are already being largely felt in many 
quarters, and it only requires to be more widely known and its 
advantages understood, and it will be extensively taken up. by 
those who have the necessary facilities for availing themselves of 
its benefits. Its success is proved beyond doubt, by the results 
which have accrued of late years to the stocking or restocking of 
waters, when judiciously done. I say judiciously done, for much 
depends on this. 
I am aware that many sweeping assertions have been made 
to the contrary, but results have proved them to be incorrect. 
It is true that in bringing the matter to the successful issue that 
it has reached there have been many failures, and it is owing 
in a measure to some of these failures, that the results are not 
infinitely larger to-day than is in reality the case. They are of 
two descriptions :— 
1. In many instances in which fish culture has been at 
tempted, it has been by persons who have carried it to a certain 
point, where it has ended in failure or produced no appreciable 
result, and so it has been abandoned and frequently a bad name 
has been given to it. ‘“Noresult has accrued,” they say, “after 
