TROUT IN THE SOUTH
WORK AT THE HATCHERIES During this season the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society lias handled over three and a-lialf million brown trout ova. all in an excellent condition, with a very high percentage of hatching. In addition, the society expects to liberate about 300,000 rainbow fry. The fry for liberation amounted to 2,100,000, and the eyed ova planted to 620,000, a total of 2.720,000, of which the Waimakariri River and tributaries received 470,000 fry and 250,000 eyed ova; the Ashley River 150,000 fry and 250,000 eyed ova, and the rivers running into Lakp Ellesmere 490,000 fry and 120,000 eyed ova. The total liberations for the season are expected to be about two and a-half million fry and about three-quarters of a million eyed ova, which is staled to be easily a record for the society.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21250, 2 August 1932, Page 6
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