TROUT "SLABS"
INVESTIGATION AND REPORT (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, 2nd December. As a result of a number of. poor or diseased brown trout known as "slabs" having been taken from the AVairau river this season, the Marlbovough Acclimatisation Society scut a specimen to tho fresh water research committee for investigation and report. The report of the committee says:—"The fish is most interesting, as it had a very badly diseased heart. This confirms other examinations we have made, which show that heart disease usually co-exists with very poor condition." The_ committee expressed a wish to be supplied with further examples for examination. In conversation with a reporter, Mr. Mogridge, the secretary of the society, remarked that a peculiar feature about the occurrence of "slabs" was that, iO far as was known, they were found only in the tidal portions of the Wairau river.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 5
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