DISAPPOINTING RUN

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 22 May 1925, Page 6

DISAPPOINTING RUN

QUINNAT SALMON IN THE SOUTH.

(BST TELEa."UI>H.-~SPKIAL TO THE POST.) '■■ DUNEDIN, This Day. The run of quinnat salmon this year has been disappointing. So far the runs are not up to ■ standard. Many of the fish have been attacked at the river bars by dogfish and barracouta, and show signs of harm. Still, the fish which came up the Waitaki towards the end of last week seem to be the first of a new school, and Mr. C. L. Ayson, who is. m charge of the work, is hopeful that there will be an improvement. The ash all seem to enter the nets overml „Solna go into the trap, but ■others linger between the two nets i lhese have to be pursued with nets, and it is quite exciting sport, for evenin that narrow space the fish flash by t^Vi 5' St/eaJ? or r cunningly hide in It 6h d"k water just Beside the netting. Netted they are very heavy and powe?ul, and almost make one lose one's balance in the strong current in making, for the shore It j, to be hoped that this years setback is only a temporary one, and that the run will improve b?fore the end Salmon is a valuable