Watch those nets
Whitebaiters on the Waimakariri and Kaiapoi rivers this month have been asked to take care when they inspect their catches. About a million fingerling quinnat salmon, reared in hatcheries near Silverstream by the Fisheries Research Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, will be released into the rivers this month.
The first batch of tiny salmon will be freed on Friday, and the procedure will be repeated every day or two throughout October.
The fingerlings will migrate down the rivers to the sea, and Mr C. L. Hopkins, an officer with the research division, said yesterday that whitebaiters could easily catch some of the fish in their nets.
Mr Hopkins asked all whitebaiters on either of the rivers this month to check their catches carefully and to return any fingerlings to the water as quickly as possible
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