TROUT AND SALMON
NORTH CANTERBURY AREAS SEASON TO OPEN LATER SIZE AND BAG LIMITS FIXED [BY TELEGRAPH^ —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday The opening of the trout fishing and salmon fishing season in North Canterbury was set back more than a fortnight by the council of the Acclimatisation Society last night. Several alternative proposals were debated at length and finally rejected. The final decision was that the trout season in rivers would open at midnight on October 15 and end on April 18. The dates for , lakes were fixed at the same as last year, December 1 to April 30. The salmon fishing season will be the same as for trout. The size of fish was limited to llin., and the bag limit was fixed at 10. Mr. C. H. Lawrence opposed an extension of the season for trout. The fish caught after the middle of April, ho said, Were seldom good for table use. Many complaints had beetu made of the scarcity of fish in the district rivers, and tho fish should be given more timo to spawn.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22818, 27 August 1937, Page 10
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