STUDY OF CARP
Control Over Lakeweed
“The Press” Special Scrrtca AUCKLAND. April 12.
Experiments will be conducted at Auckland University to determine a carp's appetite for lakeweed. Professor V. J. Chapman, head of the biology department, has been authorised to import a small number of the fish from Malacca for the experiments. Professor Chapman said the experiments would be an attempt to find a solution to the weed problem in the Rotorua lakes.
The fish would be kept In aquariums in the biology department and fed on lakeweed.
“The solution to the problem,” he said, “is effective control of the weed and not its total elimination. “If we can determine how much weed the carp will eat we will know whether they will be a suitable means of effecting control.” Professor Chapman said elimination of the weed would produce difficulties in an increase in plankton because of nutriments from sewage and organic salts normally absorbed by the weed The carp would arrive at the university sometime next month.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30724, 13 April 1965, Page 14
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STUDY OF CARP
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30724, 13 April 1965, Page 14
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