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on the natural spawning beds, to New Zealand. We find also 
that those eggs were successfully hatched there, and from this 
small stock a beginning was made, and there seems to be little 
doubt that from these eggs trout originated in New Zealand. So 
successful was the work carried on there, that the New Zealand 
Government very wisely took it in hand, and the result was a 
considerable importation of ova into the colony. 
Take the state of things in New Zealand to-day and what 
do we find? Why, that the rivers of that country are many of 
them full of magnificent trout that have grown beyond all expec- 
tation. Trout-culture in New Zealand is a grand success. A 
friend writing to me from Tasmania, August 7th, 1890, says: 
“The English brown trout that have been acclimatized here have 
done remarkably well, and attain a great size.” 
So, then, in Tasmania also trout-culture, though carried on 
under the great difficulty of importing ova from Britain at a time 
when its treatment was but very imperfectly understood, has 
proved a decided success. 
In the United States the rivers of the Pacific Coast which 
contained no shad, were successfully stocked with those fish by 
transferring ova from the East Coast rivers. At first a million 
ova were carried in suitable apparatus, the incubation going on 
during transit. This proving a success, several cars were run 
conveying five millions each, and by means of these ova the 
rivers of the West Coast were stocked. The fish, which are pro- 
lific, multiplied very rapidly, and had become so plentiful that 
they were sold at three cents a pound. 
In 1886 a quantity of ova of the smelt (Osmerus mordax) 
were sent to Cold Spring Hatchery, on the north of Long Island. 
They were hatched and turned out in Cold Spring Harbour, and 
in two years a number of fish from these eggs were taken in 
Oyster Bay, which adjoins the harbour on which the hatchery 
stands, and into which they were turned, and they have also been 
seen in the streams. 
Great success has in very many instances attended the plant- 
ing of fry in the United States as well as in Canada. Had 
“fully eyed” ova been judiciously planted in artificial beds, 
probably the results would have been more satisfactory still. In 
