BROWN AND RAINBOW TROUT.

Shannon News, 13 July 1923, Page 2

BROWN AND RAINBOW TROUT.

During the annual meeting of the Waimarino Acclimatisation Society an aside discussion took place on the relative qualities of brown trout and rainbow trout. ,

Mr Dinwoodie (Obakune) contended that something .should be done to eliminate brown trout from the gawhero Stream and stocking it with rainbow trout;. If brown trout once got a hold in a stream where there were any rainbow trout, the brown would soon eat the others out. The brown variety was not a palatable fish and was only a nuisance. He suggested the placing of weirs in the Mangawhero and all its tributaries, and in three years the brown trout would thus be destroyed. Mr McKenzie: “We can’t destroy them indiscriminately. Mr Jones: -They can be .killed out.” He. said that brown trout were not an edible fish arid the society was within its rights. It was then moved by Mr Dinwoodie, as a recommendation to the new committee, that an endeavour be made to elimnate brown trout from the. Mangawhero-§tream, which was seconded by Mr W. Ashwell and carried.