Eel Trapping to Save Duck
If an extensive eel-trapping campaign to be undertaken by the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society is successful, sportsmen over a wide area should benefit. The object is to prevent the destruction by eels of thousands of young ducks before they reach maturity, the idea being that ducks will breed profusely, overstock their haunts, and migrate to lagoons and streams throughout the province. It has been proved that if an area is thoroughly cleared of eels, it takes five years for the eel population to become large enough to menace young ducks again. The society is having 12 traps built on the design of Maori snare traps.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 35, 30 May 1947, Page 4
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109Eel Trapping to Save Duck Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 35, 30 May 1947, Page 4
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