MASTERTON FISH, HATCHERY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 260, 22 July 1918, Page 8

MASTERTON FISH, HATCHERY

Mr. C. J. Dasent,.secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society writes as follows:— . "In The Dominion 'of Friday _ last, under the heading "Masterton Notes," your correspondent says two thonsaud "rainbow" yearlings are to be sent from tlie Masterlon halchery to tho Waimnrino Acclimatisation Society. Tho Wellington Acclimatisation Society, which owns and runs the hatchery at Masterlon, does not rear Rainbow yearlings. Two thousand lirown trout yearlings were recently sold at a nominal price to Waimarino, in recognition of the severe losses sustained by thai: socieiy during the recent big lire. Your correspondent goes on to say trapping operations have failed owing to continued Hoods, only 3,600.000 have been taken l'roai the Waipoua liivor, in Wfivarapa. The oft-recurring freshes in the Waipoua-Tupiirupuru and Porewa streams have certainly spoilt the trapping of ova, but on July 8 there were in the halchery 2-17,000 eggs taken from the Waipoua, 13,000 from Tupurupuru, and IS,GOd from l'orewa, a total of 308,000 eggs, The curator, Mr..!. U. Miller (not Mr. J. H. V. Miller), has also some fifty or sixty fish not iiuito ready for stripping. There were many fish, but every Hood swept away the traps, aud the run "passed while the streams were bank high."