SALE OF N.Z. TROUT OVA
Complaint To Rotorua Tourist League (New Zealand Press Association) ROTORUA, August 6. “Just what are we trying to do? Provide nearby countries with rainbow trout fishing resources that will compete with our own and cut off the visits of overseas fishermen who bring exchange to the country?” asked Mr E. G. Guy, president of the Rotorua Tourist League, at its annual meeting. His question was prompted by a cabled report that Denmark had been able to get sturgeon spawn from Russia in exchange for trout ova that had been bred in Denmark from 15,000 rainbow ova sold to Mr Jokker, of Derilnark, from the Tongariro hatchery five years ago. Introduced into New Zealand virgin waters about 60 years ago, rainbow trout had developed size and characteristics that had made New Zealand fishing lakes and streams world famous, said Mr Guy. “But we found that great quantities were being sold, not so much to Europe, or even to California, whence they first came but to Australia, particularly to Tasmania, which had climatic and geographic conditions very akin to New Zealand’s.”
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28658, 7 August 1958, Page 9
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