VANISHING WHITEBAIT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 63, 1 March 1929, Page 4

VANISHING WHITEBAIT

NEED FOR RESTRICTIONS ON CAPTURE. The lot of the whitebait is an exceptionally hard one. From the moment the “run’» commences unrt the last of his shoal has fled sea- . wards, this particular fish mav tie netted indiscriminately. In addition to having to pass through lite evading persons armed with open pillowslips and other makeshift nets, he forms the staple diet of hungry trout. C<ntcouently he may, before long, be relegated to the same class as the moa and the dodo. Such, at any rate, is the fear of Mr. J. Andersen, Hawke’s Bay delegate to the hatchery conference held in Wellington, if not expressed in so many words. In several rivers, he stated, the whitebait had been the main food supply for trout, bjit matters were reaching such pass that the time would come when “our children’s children” would he told of a fish of that name which was once to bo found in the of this country. Mr. E. Hefford (Chief liißixvtor of said that whitebait were an important factor in maim inning big trout. 11<* came to the conclusion that the tnl-iii" o| wli tclrot ought to bp •’! •(<»<! When rr-n’M on* were lr '’u -<| >■ ut iish'ui.? v.oulJ be bo.nc in lu nj, *