BULLY TRAP TAKEN
Student’s Work Interrupted
Research being undertaken by Mr J. Cranfleld, a University of Canterbury studen*. into the habits of the freshwater fishes commonly known as bullies came to an abrupt stop over the week-end. Mr Cranfleld had laid a specially-designed trap in the Main Drain at Kaiapoi on Wednesday, to try to trap some of the fish, but the trap was removed. Mr Cranfleld has two theories about the disappearance of the wire-gauze trap—it may have been mistaken for an illegal whitebait net and removed by a ranger ir someone decided it would make a good whitebait net. His research at the moment is concentrated on bullies’ movements. Tr ips are to be set up st intervals in the drain and the amount of movement of the fish can be judged by the number of fish caught in either of the traps. However, as far as Mr Cranfleld is concerned, ail this is purely theory at present, for the missing trap was the first one he set.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29633, 2 October 1961, Page 10
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