ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25547, 15 July 1948, Page 3

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY

NEW REGULATIONS RECOMMENDED

A report presented by the Fish Committee at the monthly meeting of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society last evening recommended that application be made to the Marine Department for amended regulations providing that the season in all highcountry lakes, with the exception of Lake Lyndon, should commence on November 1, 1948. and end on April 30. 1949, the Lake Lyndon season to commence on December 1. 1948., and end on April 30, 1949; and that the size limit of fish taken in high-country lakes, excluding salmon, should be 14 inches and that a bag limit of eight fish, excluding salmon, should be observed in all high-country lakes. Mr H. E. Richardson presided. Further recommendations were that Lakes Sheppard, Taylor, Katrine, and Mason be restricted to fiy-fishing or the use of an unweighted feather lure and that in all high-country lakes, excepting Lakes Coleridge and Sumner in which salmon are present, the bait should be restricted to unweighted artificial fly or feather lure. On the motion of Dr. D. McK. Dickson it was decided to place on record a protest against the increases of fishing licences from 25s to 30s. Professor E. Percival was elected a supernumary member of the council for the ensuing year.