Fish suffer from stress
PA Tauranga The modern malady, stress, is affecting trout in the Tauranga fishery. Several rainbow trout caught recently had fin rot. The Ngangotaha hatchery had blamed it on stress, said the chairman of the Tauranga Acclimatisation Society’s fish committee chairman, Mr Greg Vindriis, yesterday.
All the fish affected had spent the last fishing season in the children’s fishout pond at the hatchery and had been brought to Tauranga by tanker and this had caused the stress, the hatchery staff speculated. Because they had been used to living in a shoal in the pond they had stayed together in the river pools where they had been released.
That had resulted in intensive competition for food, causing further stress. The same problem did not occur with fingerlings because they scattered through the length of a steam once released. Mr Vindriis said that the , only cute for mature fish ' seemed to be to release them in small numbers along a river.
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Press, 14 March 1984, Page 22
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