TROUT FRY LIBERATIONS
BAY OF PLENTY DISTRICT WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT [by telegraph—owx correspondent] ROTORUA, Thursday Before the close of the season the Infernal Affairs Department expects to liberate approximately 5,000.000 trout fry in the Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, Taupo and Waikaremoana districts, about half this total having already been liberated. The total number of fry set free in the Rotorua lakes district so far has been 1,592,500, and in the Waikaremoana district, where liberations have already concluded, 410,000. A considerable number of liberations has still to be made in the Taupo and lokaanu areas, where the liberations so far have been 454.000. There arc at present SOO,OOO ova in the Ngongotaha hatchery, and as soon as the fry from these reach the proper stage they will be liberated.
Good progress has also been made with work at the department's newgame farm at Ngongotaha. Approximately 50 birds have now been established in the first breeding pens and it, is anticipated that the first hatches will arrive in the latter part of November. The hatching of pheasant eggs is being carried out chiefly with incubators and broody fowls, the pheasants themselves merely supplying the eggs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22545, 9 October 1936, Page 13
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194TROUT FRY LIBERATIONS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22545, 9 October 1936, Page 13
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