TROUT FISHING IN LAKE ELLESMERE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11489, 23 January 1903, Page 5

TROUT FISHING IN LAKE ELLESMERE.

■flpA luge number of local angteei met ai ■jilt* Bnuds* Hall Urt night far the pur BlJlijk'Qf opposing the petition promoted bj Hpj> Wk* lilesiaere fishermen praying tta to permit the netting of troul BBBtettie late, and the irabsequent eaJe of Wμ ■M) Mr B. D, Harmed was in tine chaii ■nPta tb* ewßer part of the meeting, buj HnKxacated the position when Dr. Mooriiouw Canterbury Acclimatisation Society ■jji|f*t* stating that it folly concurred witE ■MpAagkM' Society in protesting against HHjjfc Wilieing of the netting tad sale oJ Lake Elk*n*re. Chairman, Mr R. D. Haraan, iug■IIJPN that til angiem should unite to form jl|iJs*J* r SP society, which could enter an jJKjijnKAi'TOi protest against any concessions beSflMtatde to tlie lake flebermen who wished Bw|ptt> treat. They most work togefc&ei KffiPbtir fishing would be rained. KH|3ln Chairman then read a form of drawn up by the Angler* , Society. Hwip V. Hynes thin meeta of opinion that if the petlBWrf toe Lake Ellesmere fiebenoea be BBmiWf and the netting of trout in Lake KBpawt iegalieed, the , angling in the MJJP!* I, recruited from the lake vriH be Hμ nggwtaan that the* trout KHM be need m a food supply, he eaid, 4bwrJ, for i! the netting of the lake bgal, ft would be depleted ot It a wry few yeaj*.. . ■ •. Uμ «t&ge Dr. Mooxhoute Arrived and ■Pk the «bair. ■ P. WMtendca said that the Lake wlPiMims* fidxrmen who tor HbSJK* , iTVQi > bAd only tnemeoWoi to WP»wr the km of tie flounder* from the MBay 13tdr own ctpeiemnceai ia dragging jHP*jwe bad cawed the ruin of their insHS"" }' , Wbeo the fisbennen found that MKl* ~S* vac K«*ting empty of ffirondere, «x«M» like their predeceasars, hare Opimelaewhere. • Moorhowe m& that the fißhennen of the growth of "trout MB[*w; in the lake. Tfae weed they obto wig not tbe American weed, but gnw; for which neither the AcSociety nor the body at iipS*™ «• Wlpeiieible.awHoe waa pot and carried imariifuitlier motion wae carried—"That in |H^s*Pj a ' ee °f tbie meeting a counter peti«K* o! "Slew »nd ofchera be started at «KJVj^ n * ***p> W taken to -have the same forwwded to the Gorcrnment *Sp°™>B& Oα kraal Aodimatisation Society." Hi k aiSlZj that the petition «!»• 16 SrTsi *° Oorommeot, and not Society. litttifthfcS?^ ~1 * * twsa moTOd—"That ra °* tekMatetmg, if the netting piSt^ e,lMn be aboli&hed, endeaypun *B*Aa to oompensaie the neident l •* *1» We* by buying their auta, §1 Jfl£ ** * fai * **ta«t&m."t^ 1 **• 'Wried, with the omiii- *» Vftir*il* *** •ft* l ' «•»• *ord "lake." tm^»S*? im «* Mr B. D. Harman, it **** » **» event of the QoL * fce EUeenere against iK*Sir*'i guWaete * tod should be created ||||"*~* "•» of finding pan of the funde , * t y for cotopeaMtdag the fiehennen. JfeStl?" Jγ? weotved to aak the Accijma!B£2T? Oc «*y to.contribute towards tne *• <»e>pan«ation. , * wae carried tiat copies of *$§£$$**& fteolntiote ehould be foryarded provincial membeis of Parliament, mssMsf "Iwukl be solicited.