QUINNAT SALMON
Sir, —Reading to-day's Dominion, it might be interred that the Wellington Acclimatisation Council is in favour of introducing the qiiinuat salmon in our local streani6. ' Allow me to say that, as a member of the council, and speaking as a trout fisherman, I should be most decidedly against any such proposal, and for the following reasons: — Such streams a.s are fully stocked with salmon will at certain times be infested with hordes of smolt-s, which will take anything in tho shape of a fly, and themselves are worthless, being only fingerlings, and these pests will consume the trout food. In the Hutt River we have a capital trout stream, and my own experience with the Home salmon in trout streams 3s that the trout fishing deteriorate o severely. I could have given other reasons for not introducing the quinnat, but the above will suffice for the present.—l am, etc., , F. WHITLEY. 7 Hawkestono Street, September 14, 1916.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2878, 16 September 1916, Page 7
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159QUINNAT SALMON Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2878, 16 September 1916, Page 7
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