TROUT BLAMED
I YOUNG WHITEBAIT EATEN I PROBLEM FACING INDUSTRY Trout liberated; in West land's lakes and., rivers are eating young whitebait and ruining the industry, according to the harbourmaster at I Hokitika, Mr G. Howe. The last season, which failed completely, was the worst. whitebait season in the history of the West Coast,, said Mr Howe. lit was wrong to think that the whitebait was being fished out. There were no good runs last season in rivers never fished by white mail. Climate affected whitebait, a":so and it was remarkable that in years when pastoral growth was' small the fish were thin and tasteless. Floods could not he blamed, for the decline in the whitebait as they usually made big runs after floods'. Nor could eels be blamed as they seemed
to disappear and be inactive during the winter. The; liberation of trout was. continuing and what was, once a huge industry was. declining because of their depredations. Lf nothing were done West Coast whitebait wou-'.d be extinct within 25 to 30 years.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 43, 29 January 1943, Page 2
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174TROUT BLAMED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 43, 29 January 1943, Page 2
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