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with fish of the finest quality for sport and food. 
All this has been attained partly by the perse¬ 
verance of our own people and by the generous 
assistance given to our Government by the United 
States Bureau of Fisheries and its officers in 
supplying any fish eggs required. 
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DISCUSSION. 
H. Stephenson Smith.—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 degrees of 
latitude, almost due north and south. It has 
over 5,000 miles of seaboard; it is interspersed 
with watercourses. In a large portion of that 
country you will find a mountain stream every 
mile. We have also some arterial rivers, run¬ 
ning 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 surface 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. 
John W. Titcomb.—One thought suggests it¬ 
self to me: The results from the acclimatiza¬ 
tion 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 distributed now in New Zealand, 
is not the rainbow trout (Salmo irid'eus), but 
the steelhead trout (Salmo gairdneri). 
Prof. Edward E. Prince.—One important rea¬ 
son 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 al¬ 
ways felt, as every fish culturist on this conti¬ 
nent 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 \yith those of the Pacific coast; many 
of them are glacial and have abundance 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 conti¬ 
nent. But it seems that on the whole the plant¬ 
ing of salmon has not been so successful as the 
trout, and it has always seemed to me one rea¬ 
son was in the lack of proper feeding grounds. 
There may be abundant food for them in the 
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