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Southland Times, Issue 909, 2 March 1868, Page 1

The "Daily Times" of the 22nd inst. has the following: — At Waikouaiti, on the morning of Friday last, early visitors to the beach observed an irrmense shoal of fish close inshore, and presently found that a great number were obtainable through the receding tide leaving them behind. After the first discoverers had amply laden themselves, says the " Herald," the news rapidly spread and there were soon lots of people to gather the unusual harvest. (There were, " as well as large fish (of from one to two feet in length), a great number of sprats, or a similar variety! which hare been pronounced by connoisseurs highly delicious. There appears to be a difference of opinion as to which particular species the larger fish belong. They somewhat resemble the ling, while one who ought to be an expert in this kind of knowledge says they are a description of blackfish ; but by whatever name they may be known, they were firtt-rate eating. It is suggested that the late storms may have caused the coast to ba visited by these extraordinary shoals.