Odd Fish
Harvey, the two-toned trout who died at Ngongotaha was but one of many local piscatorial peculiarities. Mr S. A. McNamara, conservator of wildlife in Rotorua, recalled other freaks and oddities among the large trout population of the district. A “Siamese twin” trout headed his list. “We strike a terrific amount of these,” he said. “They are very common indeed. We have just thousands of them in our hatcheries some years. But I have never seen a matured Siamese-twin trout; apparently they survive only while young.” Injuries, accidents and disruptions at birth, said Mr McNamara, all accounted for deformities in freak fish. Humpbacked trout were quite common. He had even seen one which had no snout or front upper jaw. “With just a gap between its eye and lower mouth I do not know how it fed, but it did,” lie said.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27894, 16 February 1956, Page 6
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