BLACK SHAGS
RAIDERS ON TROUT
Efforts are being made to exterminate black shags on Lake Waikaremoana, where there is a fairly; large colony of the birds. One or two parties of sportsmen have been making , an almost continuous onslaught on them and their toll has been large. • . ' Writing to the Minister.of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry), Mr. J. S. Jessep, the owner of Waihi Station■■■'; on the Wairoa-Wsitearemoaria road, who takes a keen interest in the fishing on the lake, stated that since December; last he had shot over 30 shags. Mr. Jessep said that froni close examination he was satisfied the shags ..took, ten times more ■ fish from Waikare- ; mbana than did . all' the anglers put together. Mr. Jessep has made many; analyses of the gullet of shags shoiv | and says all contained young tfout, : ' but a shag he recently shot had a trout,;; measuring 17 inches long and weighjing 21b, partly down its gullet. A; picture of this shag appears on this Page-' .■ ""■ ■■ '-■■'■■ ' ' ■■--••:' '•'.':/. '"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 90, 16 April 1940, Page 7
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167BLACK SHAGS Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 90, 16 April 1940, Page 7
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