Voracious Shags
“Sportsmen might be surprised to learn that the stomach contents of 2883 shags shot and examined contained 15,803 trout from fingerlings up to 31b,” said Mr T. R. Boyes, chairman of the fish committee of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, at its annual meeting. “Investigators watched a shag tackle a large trout in a deep pond and eventually drag it out of the water,” he said. “The shag was then shot, and on examination it was found that it had gouged out the eyes of the trout and ”^ The trout weighed
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6242, 14 June 1946, Page 5
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