SOUTH CANTERBURY ANGLERS
“ SEASON’S CATCH OF 95,000 FISH ” from Our C m Reporter TIMARU, May 23. Based on 14 diaries kept by South Canterbury fishermen, the annual report of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society says that an average fisherman in the last season would have caught about 73 fish. “If it was the average for all licence holders, this would amount to 95.000 fish being killed over the whole district." the report said. According to statistics compiled from the diaries Lake Alexandrina produced the fish of greatest average length (21.0 in and weight (3.751 b The Opihi was the only river for which there was information about salmon fishing. There the average* salmon weight was 14.71 b. Of South Canterbury rivers the Waihi gave the highest number of fish for an hour of fishing. The rates of production were: Waihi 2.2, Ohape 1.9, Opawa 1.8. Pareora 1,5. Kakahu 1.2, Tengawai 0.9, Lake Alexandrina 0.7. Opihi 0.6. In the South Canterbury district the bag limit is 12 fish a day. A study of more than 400 recorded day?' angling shows that on 94 per cent, of their days anglers took six fish or less. On only three days (0.7 > of those recorded was a limit bag taken. Of these limits two wen? taken on the Waihi and one on the Ohape rivers
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25811, 24 May 1949, Page 6
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