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Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1929, Page 2

The lot of the whitebait says an exchnngo is an exceptionally hard one. Froin the moment the “run” commences until the last of his shoal has fled seawards, this particular fish may be netted indiscriminately. In addition to having to pass through life evading persons armed with open pillow--1 slips and other makeshift nets, he ■forms the staple diet of hungary trout. Consequently he may, before long, be I relegated to the same class as tho moa land the dodo. Such, at any rate, is 'the fear of Mr J. Anderson, Hawko’s Bay delegate to tho Hatchery Conference held in Wellington, if .not expressed in so many words. In several rivers, he stated, tbe whitebait lias been the main food supply for trout, but matters were reaching such a pass that the time would come when “our children’s children” would be told of a fish of that name which was once to be found in tho streams of this country Mr E. Hefford, chief inspector of fisheries, said that whitebait were an important factor in maintaining big trout. He thought that tho taking of whitebait should be regulated When regulations were being framed trout fishing would bo borne m mind.