HYBRID FISH FOUND.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 294, 12 December 1929, Page 10

HYBRID FISH FOUND.

"MORE TROUT THAN SALMON" UNCONVENTIONAL COURTING. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WANGANUI, this day. What happens when a young male salmon, swelling into manhood, encroaches into the preserves of the young bloods of the trout species and courts a pretty female trout is open to conjecture, but it is safe to say that Messrs. Rainbow and Brown resent the intrusion. Not so Miss Trout, who, apparently, welcomes a little new blood. Recently, a fish was taken from the YVanganui River which the local Acclimatisation Society thought might be an Atlantic salmon. They sent it to the Inspector of Fisheries at Wellington, but were doomed, to disappointment. Mr HeiFord reported that, although the fish partook of the character of both salmon and trout, it more resembled the trout than the salmon. "It seems to me quite possible that some, of the young salmon have become sexually ripe before leaving fresh water, and, having no spawning females of their own species to attract them, have butted in among the trout," reports the inspector.