WELL-STOCKED STREAMS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 188, 7 May 1931, Page 5

WELL-STOCKED STREAMS

Sport in North Wairarapa Dominion Special Service. Masterton, May 5. According to the annual report of the Prthiatua sub-committee of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, the committee, in accordance with its policy of endevouring systematically to stock streams which have shown a decline in fish life, placed 750 brown trout yearlings in the Mangahao river and '2OOO rainbow yearlings and 40,000 rainbow fry in the Makuri. In all 150,000 brown trout fry were liberated, 45,000 in the Mangatainoka, 45.000 in the Mangahao, 40,000 in the Makakahi river, and .20,000 in the lower reaches of the Makuri river. The Mangatainoka, it was stated, was teeming with fish, but the weight and size leave much to be desired. The Makakahi gave good sport iit the early months of the season. The Manawatu has yielded some fine bags of brown trout. License-holders in the sub-committee.s district, at their annual meeting, decided to recommend the council of the society that the limit of twenty fish a day be reduced from 20 to 15, and that the minimum size should be increased from nine to eleven , inches. Information given in the report indicates that quail are to be found in isolnted envoys in the district, mid although hard to’locate appear to be holding their own. Grey duck are plentiful and pukeko are increasing. Hares and rabbits are fairly well distributed about the district. Deer are to be found in the Tararua and Waewaepa ranges, but it was reported that the heads are in the main of poor quality. It was reported that 40 pheasants had been released.