FISH IN TUKITUKI

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 40, 3 March 1937, Page 9

FISH IN TUKITUKI

Mysterious Causes oi Death DYNAMITE OR DIP7 Yearling fish numbering 3500 and 300 fish from one and-a-half to two and-a-half years have recently been liberated in the Tutaekuri xiver by the ranger of the Hawke's Bay Acclimatisation Society, Mr F. D. Robson. Almost immediately 25,000 rainbow fingerlings are also to be liberated, many of them probably in tutira Lake. Strenuous objection to the liberation of further fish for the present 'a the Tukituki river wai made by Mr A. E. Rcnouf, who likeuod the action to pojuring wa'.er down the drain. He commeuted that when five to nino pbund fish came cuwn the river dead. there was soinetliing radically wrong. He did not know if they were being dynamried or nbt, but it was a fact that there weie less fish there now than at the beginning of the season. Other membeis ex^.iesseii dv.agreement with this view, The rangei Is to net fish at Tutira when fchey commeuce to rim, to view the progress the fish are making there. Thirteen thous-and rainbow fingerlings were liberated in Sandy Creek in Octobcr, and this week a, further 10,000 will be liberated. Later further fingerlings will be liberated in the Eak. Iu the mili stream, or Waimai stream, on the Fernhill road, two cans of fingerlings will also he liberated. Suspicions that yearling fish wero being killed by the discharge of aheep dip into the Tukituki were mentioned in the report of the ranger. He said that there had been several reports of dead fish coming down to Te Mata. It was decided to endeavour to procure some of the fish for inspection by the Marine Department, to find how the fish are being killed "The fish are certainly not dying of old age," commented Mr Renouf.