Payment For Returned Fish Tags Mooted
The fish committee of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society favoured the utmost publicity for the return of fish tags and would welcome payment for their rethrn, if paid from money contributed by acclimatisation societies for freshwater fisheries research.
This was said in a’composite report of the fish, game and executive committees of i the society which was presentjed to a meeting of the society’s council. I It had been decided the matter would be raised at the (next meeting of the South | Island council, the report | said. It had also been decided the delegate to the South Island 'council meeting would raise jthe question of the legal position regarding the removal of waters by catchment boards. The chairman of the fish I committee (Mr G. Ferris) said
that the North Canterbury Catchment Board had recently diverted the Ashley river upstream from the Rangiora bridge while some operations were in progress.
The society was, accidentally, not informed of the diversion, and many four-inch fish were lost. The catchment board had apologised, and had assured the society it would be informed before any future operations. The game committee section of the report said about 2400 partridge would be released in suitable areas, some to reinforce previous liberations, and others in approved new areas. The birds were nowbeing released. Sites had been selected at Halkett, Kimberley, Annat, Hororata, between the Waimakariri and Ashley rivers, and in the Ellesmere area. Dr. McK. Dickson said. The executive committee report recommended that a representative of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council be requested to address council members at the April meeting, outlining a plan for the control of Lake Ellesmere, the Selwyn river, and the catchment area beyond, so as to provide more effective control of the water flow in the Selwyn and so eliminate some of the associated problems at the lake.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 21
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314Payment For Returned Fish Tags Mooted Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 21
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