WHITEBAIT DISAPPEARING.
Tt is likely that restrictions will be placed on (lie netting of whitebait next season, in the opinion of Mr. D. Hope, curator to the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, states the Christchurch ‘‘Press.'’ Mr. Hope has long advocated that whitebait should be conserved, as the most valuable source of the trout’s food supply, but it is only recently that those in authority have realised that, these small fish are rapidly becoming scarcer each year and that if they continue to he exploited as they have been, they will soon be no 'more. The (matter came up at the last conference of Acclimatisation Society curatorsi The curtailment of the season was deemed necessary by many members, and Mr. A. Hefferd, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, agreed that the time had come when something should bo done.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3953, 8 June 1929, Page 2
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136WHITEBAIT DISAPPEARING. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3953, 8 June 1929, Page 2
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