QUINNAT SALMON

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1928, Page 7

QUINNAT SALMON

NORTHERN RIVERS REPORT.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, March -10

“Although quinnat salmon is now plentiful in South Island rivers ,it is working northward at a very slow rate of progress,” said the chief Inspector of Fisheries (Mr A. E. Hefford) yesterday. He added that stocking of the South Island rivers with quinnat had been a wonderful triumph of pisciculture. Quinnat were now running freely in certain rivers in the South and splendid specimens had been caught. Mr Hefford said that the quinnat had work ed across Cook Strait from the rivers stocked at the north end of the South Island. They had found their way ir to Wairarapa Lake and into several rivers in the Wellington province during the past three or four years. It had been a slow rate of progress and it was still a matter of speculation how far north the quinnat would es tablish itself.

When the Waikato River was mentioned Mr Hefford said it was not ye' known whether it would be suitable fo salmon. It was possible that the latitude was too far north and that water had too high a. temperature. However, investigations were being made by the Auckland Acclimatisation Sc ciety. Mr Hefford said that the work of endeavouring to stock the Wanganui River with Atlantic salmon was still in progress. Small fish had been found in the head waters.