ATLANTIC SALMON
STRIPPING COMMENCED. - The Government hatchery has been erected on the Upukerora river during the past week and work has already commenced on the Atlantic Salmon, which have started to come up frdm the sea. To date 25,000 ova have been put down ■at the hatchery, but the full flush of fish has not yet arrived. It is expected that within three weeks the salmon will be coming up in large numbers, and the work will greatly increase. The Southland Acclimatisation Society is working in conjunction with the Government officials, and it hopes to get all the brown trout ova required for the coming season from the traps laid in the Upukerora for salmon. At present the trout coming up are net fit for stripping, but will be ready when the salmon are fully on the run.
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Southland Times, Issue 18965, 13 June 1923, Page 6
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138ATLANTIC SALMON Southland Times, Issue 18965, 13 June 1923, Page 6
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