WHOLESALE MORTALITY
14,000 DEAD TROUT FRY
Officials of the Feilding Acclimatisation Society were hardly equal to the shock received on Thursday morning, when practically all of a consignment of 14,000 trout fry, placed in the society’s holding ponds on Wednesday evening, were found dead. This mortality baffled the society’s curator (Mr Fraser), who agrees that the consignment, which came from the Dannevirke hatcheries, was the bestconditioned that the society had handled. The utmost care was taken in transferring the fry from the containers to the pond and conditions were in no way abnormal. Everything appeared to be in order when the work was finished so that the discovery the following morning was quite unexpected. A sample of the water in the holding ponds was sent to Wellington for analysis, because it was felt that the explanation could only lie with the water. Meanwhile, the society placed an order for a replacement with the Hawera hatcheries,, but these will not be bandied until the curator is satisfied that the water in the pond is safe.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 25 October 1930, Page 4
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174WHOLESALE MORTALITY Hawera Star, Volume L, 25 October 1930, Page 4
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