ANGLERS DIFFER.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20574, 16 June 1932, Page 8

ANGLERS DIFFER.

EFFECT OF SALMON ON

TROUT.

COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE.

\ letter from the Auckland Acclimatisation Society asking for information * s to whether or not salmon are detrimental to trout led to an interesting discussion at last night's meeting of tZ Council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, in the course of which some opposing opinions were CS ahe SS Auckland Society's letter said that the society was contemplating tlio establishment of quinnat salmon in the \V«nganui river and desired information from the North Canterbury Society as to whether salmon were detrimental to trout. A Very Moot Point. Mr G D. Mcllraitk suggested that •die Auckland Society should be advised to write to the secretary of the >V aitaki Society, who had been very bitter m his remarks at a conference regarding salmon in tho WaitaKi river. Mr C. H. Lawrence: It is a very moot point indeed. No one is going to state definitely that they are detrimental. Anglers have no doubt about it" but they have no definite evidence. Mr R. Ashworth said that Mr C. F Champion could tell them that in tlie H'urunui river this year there were more trout than ever, and that the salmon had not driven them out. ,Mr Champion concurred with this statement. 1 Not Detrimental. Mr P. J. Molloy said that it, was a very controversial question. His own opinion was that salmon did not anv harm. He himself had taken six trout and three salmon from the same pool in the liakaia river this season. Mr C. R. Russell said tKat, fishing in the Waimakariri, he had taken salmon with one cast and three casts later he had taken trout, and other anglers also took trout from the same pool. . A Committee to "Report. Mr J; . Stcans said that it was a difficult thing to decide. Ho had been of the opinion that the supply.of trout food was depicted by salmon, but last season in tho Rakaia there were just as many trout running as usual, and lie was satisfied that there were more salmon. The question was too big to decide offhand, especially as the Auckland Society was going to be influenced by the opinion expressed by the North Canterbury Society. He suggested thnt a small committee should he set up to draw up the Society's reply. He thought that the Auckland Society was afraid Si tlie salmon and wanted an excuse for not establishing them. After other members had expressed their opinions, it was decided, on the motion of Mr Steams, seconded by Mr Lawrence, to set up a committee, consisting of Messrs L. A. Shand (president of the Societv). C. H. Lawrence, and F. Stcans, to bring down a report to the next meeting of tho Council.