TROUT OVA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23479, 17 October 1939, Page 8

TROUT OVA

SUPPLY TO AUSTRALIA SUCCESS OF CONSIGNMENT COMMENTS BY MINISTER EFFICIENCY OF NEW HATCHERY [by TKLECIWrn —own cokiikspondent] ROTORUA, Monday The Government recently exported a consignment of 500,000 trout ova or eggs from Rotorua to Australia, and tho Commonwealth authorities have indicated that they need further supplies. The ova was stripped from trout taken in the streams of tho department's hatcheries in tho district, packed in special containers and shipped by ono of the usual intercolonial steamers. Cabled advice stated that tho ova had reached Sydney in splendid condition. The Minister, of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, stated this evening, that tho export of ova to Sydney gavo mutual satisfaction to the Now Zealand Government and tho State Government of New South Wales. Some years ago quantities of trout ova were sent from New Zealand to the Commonwealth fisheries, but supplies were discontinued becauso of tho opinion that all tho ova collected should bo reared into fry and liberated in the lakes and streams of the Dominion. Ample Supplies Available With tho new hatchery and other equipment in full working order it had been found that the insistent demands of Australia for New Zealand ova could be met without reducing the quantities of ova required annually for the many lakes and streams of tho thermal district. "There is a fair industry," * Mr. Parry added, "in the collection of additional quantities of ova for Australia and it augments our revenue from tho fisheries. Besides, there is 'always tho courteous call of Australia for our ova and this inter-trading between the two sister Dominions forms a line gesture. Liberations in Rotorua District "When I was in Sydney representing the Government at Australia's 150 th birthday celebrations the State Fisheries Department and anglers strongly urged, me to arrange with our Government to resume the export of ova to the Commonwealth. They declared the New Zealand ova to be tho best,* not the most virile, jn tho world. Australia had had wonderful results from it and almost any quantity, they said, could bo taken and advantageously used." Tho Minister added that the returns supplied to him to-day showed that 4,174,000 fry or young trout had been liberated this season in the lakes and streams of the Rotorua district. "Those aro splendid figures," commented Mr. Parry, "and they testify to the efficiency of the new hatchery which has carried out tho work expected of it."