Trout Salvaged In Dry Streams

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30965, 22 January 1966, Page 1

Trout Salvaged In Dry Streams

Slightly fewer than a quarter of a million fingerling, yearling and older brown trout had been salvaged from the Hororata and Selwyn rivers up to Wednesday, said the secretary of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society (Mr J. R. Claydon) yesterday.

The work had been necessary, he said, because of the drying up of the streams in the middle section of the Selwyn. The trout had been released in lakes and other rivers.

: Mr Claydon said that up to Wednesday, 245,000 fingerlings up to 4in long and 3800 yearlings and older fish had been removed, and the work would continue. It was expected that considerably more fish would be salvaged before the end of the season. In accordance with the society’s policy, 900 yearlings and 2000 fingerlings had been released at Lake Selfe. Other releases were.—4o,ooo fingerlings, Lake Pearson: 600 yearlings and 4000 fingerlings, Lake Sarah: 800 yearlings and 40,000 fingerlings, Lake Crasmere: 12,000 fingerlings, Waiau river; 300 yearlings and 40,000 fingerlings, Ashley

river; 16,000 fingerlings, Irwell river; 15,000 fingerlings. Lower Selwyn river; 40 yearlings and 8000 fingerlings, Avon river.

The Nelson Acclimatisation Society was to have had 5000 fingerlings, but the transport unit was unsatisfactory, so the fish were liberated in North Canterbury rivers. The Ashburton society got 150 yearlings and 2000 fingerlings for Lake Clearwater.

Mr Claydon said 46,000 fingerlings were held at Silverstream, and the rest of the salvaged fish were at Gillanders’s pond awaiting release. To complete the season’s stocking programme, he said, salvaged brown trout would be released at Lakes Sheppard and Forsyth and the Hurunui river if conditions were satisfactory, and into permanent water in the Selwyn and Ellesmere system.