60,000 TROUT FRY RELEASED IN TAIHAPE STREAMS
TAIHAPE, Last Night (OCL— About 26 members ot the Taihape Acclimatisation Society participated in the liberation of 49,000 brown trout try and 20,000 rainbow trout try on Sunday. The brown fry were freed ir the Hautapu Stream between the dam and the twin bridges north of Hihitahl, and the rainbow fry were released in the Moawhango River.
The fry were brought to Taihape by Mr. A. D. Head, field officer and secretary of the Wellington Acclima tisation Society, who was accompanied by Mr. E. Hemingway, chairman of the society’s fish committee Prospects for the next fishing season in the Taihape district are particularly bright, according to the secretary of the Taihape Sub-Committee. "The livers in the district are low at present and the Hautapu is still carrying a certain amount of weed," he told a reporter. He said that the young fish liberated in the society's pond at Aldridges Terrace were originally "trapped in our own waters, including the Porangaki Stream (Kawhataii).’’
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Wanganui Chronicle, 31 August 1950, Page 4
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