SALMON STOCK MAY BE INCREASED

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30911, 18 November 1965, Page 22

SALMON STOCK MAY BE INCREASED

The North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society may double the stock of salmon in Lake Hawdon. At the annual meeting, Mr D. J. Hughey successfully moved a recommendation that this be done and also that the council investigate the extent of the damage caused by competitors and obstacles in the lake. In reply to another speaker who said that too much emphasis was being placed on

salmon to the detriment of trout, Mr Hughey said that one type was complementary to the other. A motion that the council consider reducing the limit bag from six to three suffered a heavy defeat. Speakers considered that salmon were rare and it was seldom that a fisherman was able to score a limit bag. The council will also investigate the possibility of improving the access to Lake Coleridge by way of the Harper river. £5O Fine Mr G. Mugford said that anybody caught releasing domestic cats in the country was liable to a fine of £5O. Another member had complained of the damage that released cats had done to birds. Mr Mugford said that members of the council had met the S.P.C.A. and the Rabbit Board over this problem. The latter could not dispose officially of any cats that were caught but was obliged to release them.

Conserving Crocodiles. The Tanzanian Government will introduce laws to protect crocodiles from the danger of extinction through indiscriminate hunting. Under regulations to become effective next January, hunters would require a licence to shoot crocodiles and the killing of those under 6ft long would be banned.—Dar-es-Salaam. November 17.