Fish box to allow live fish to be sent to New Zealand
© Smith Art Gallery & MuseumTransport container invented at the Fish Farm at Howietoun, Stirling opened and owned by James Ramsay Gibson Maitland in 1873. This was the first commercial fish farm in the world and his inventions and systems allowed the farm to export fish to every part of the world at a time when it was otherwise difficult to transport live fish for more than a few days. . His containers could hold 10,000 fry or 100 fish and were carried by donkeys to allow the restocking of lakes and lochs in inaccessible highland areas. Otherwise they travelled by train and horse and cart. He transported Loch Leven Brown Trout eggs to New Zealand in 1881 by packing them in Linoleum, Sphagnum Moss and Ice. In 1887 he published his experiments and information on fish farming and this formed the basis of the world fish farming business
The fish farming industry is now responsible for over 40 percent of the fish eaten every day.
World's first fish farm container
Contributed by Smith Museum Stirling Scotland
Fish box to allow live fish to be sent to new Zealand
© Smith Art Gallery & Museum
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This wonderful and i am reminded when someone I know many years ago caste his first fly into the Utahina Straem river at lake Rotorua near the famous geysers of New Zealand and caught a brown trout. The brown was not as popular as the the Rainboow trout . It is supposed the brown trout came to aid stocks in this vast wonderland at some period after the Mout Tarawers eruption in the late 1800,s. The Smiths owned the American popular fishing moyel lodge called the Utihina lodge and their daughter Margaret became a farmers wife. The Voss,s who were the world fly casing champions related to my immediate Voss relatives here in Queensland. Dunedin would see also the first frozen meat exports in that Scottish city of new Zealand