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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 3

A party of pig shooters from Christchurch last week came across what they are satisfied is conclusive evidence as to the depredations made upon trout by I shags. They were camped at the mouth of what is known as Narrow Gorge, at the headwaters of the Selwyn river, and had seen many shags travelling up the gorge carrying fish. Pigs being scarce the party decided to follow the shags, j and after much hard climbing they came i upon tlie rookery, well up the gorge. Two of the younger members of the party climbed up and found many nests, some containing eggs and others birds in all stages of growth. By the nests they found trout of all sizes, some picked clean to the bone, others partly eaten and several fresh fish just brought in. ! In places the bones were a foot deep, ; and the investigators have no doubt I that, they were all trout bones. The party destroyed all the eggs and young i ones, and shot all the old birds which made their anuearauce. .