LARGE SHOAL OF EELS
WAIKATO RIVER SPECTACLE RETURNING' AFTER SPAWNING [from oun own correspondent! PUKEKOIIE, Wednesday A huge shoal of cols, which took long time to pass a point ui the e» u arv of the Waikato likor, and was so thick that an outboard motor could not be started, was observed by a »' koho resident, Mr. • Porter, « returned to-dav from a hohda> S | K ' in camp on the shores of the * u a Estuarv. . i The noise made by the eels awaken Mr. Porter late at night. He stn that the Hsh were swimming verj c o together. Fishing lines weio »ro out. but the eels would not bite. Maoris in the district told Mr. 1 J c that the eels had probabh leen < to the sea to spawn and would bite when returning in shoals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23221, 15 December 1938, Page 14
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137LARGE SHOAL OF EELS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23221, 15 December 1938, Page 14
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