ANGLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8725, 26 November 1913, Page 3

ANGLING.

Tho Ashburton • and Rangitata rivers were reported to be clear to-day, but the Rakaia was dirty. :

Tagging trout is an interesting process of which the average man knows little. It is carried out by the Acclimatisation Societies by affixing a , little numbered silver tag with a wire to the dorsal fin of a trout which has been weighed and measured, find then liberating it. Several of these tags were brought to the meeting of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society this week, and the. record showed that the trout had made good progress. A strange coincidence was that two trout tagged on June 8, 1912, were caught on November 8 of this year.. The valuable feature of the experiment was -that stripped fish were caught, thus disproving the somewhat persistent belief that stripped fish die w.hen liberated. The curator at' the Masterton Fish Hatcheries has concluded the -first season in the new hatcheries, and when 33,000 fry are despatched to Feilding this week,"the total number of brown and rainbow trout fry. sent to various acclimatisation societies in the North Island will reach 750,000, being a considerable increase on the output of any previous year. It is anticipated that with the completion of a number of minor improvements there will be hatched next year close on a million ova. The new hatcheries have thus "made good " in their first season, and experts express the opinion that when in firstclass running order the hatcheries will be the finest and most up-to-date in the Southern Hemisphere.