BETTER TROUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 441, 24 August 1928, Page 13

BETTER TROUT

STOCK FROM TAUPO WATERS DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER RIVERS (THE SUN 3 S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, To-day. By distributing ova from the strong vigorous trou't of the Tongariro River and its tributaries, the fishery authorities of the Dominion hope to improve the quality of the fish in other New Zealand waters. The report of the Department of Internal Affairs states that over 4,000,000 rainbow trout ova were collected in the tributaries of the Tongariro River. Of this total 1,400,000 eyed ova were sold to acclimatisation societies throughout New Zealand, 1,000,000 to the State Fisheries Department in New South Wales, 75,000 to the Salmon and Fresh Water Fisheries Commissioners of Tasmania, 1,185,000 were sent to the department’s hatchery at Rotorua to bo reared and disposed of as fry, and 376,000 were hatched at the. Tongariro hatchery. Altogether 365,000 fry were reared from the 376.000 ova hatched at the Tongariro hatchery, 25,000 being liberated in, the waters of the Tongariro National Park and 340,000 in the Taupo district waters. In addition 100,000 eyed ova were received from Lake Hawea, from which ,80,000 fry were reared and liberated in the Taupo district waters. At the Rotorua hatchery 912,500 fry were reared from the eyed ova received from the Tongariro hatchery, 386,000 being liberate in the Rotorua district waters and the remainder sold to acclimatisation societies. Arrangements are being made for the complete renovation of the Rotorua hatchery. A commencemetn was made on extensive opertaions for augmenting the food supply in Lake Taupo by the liberation of small indigenous fishes. A total of 426,000 fresh water shrimps taken from tlio Waikato River, near Mercer, was liberated, and arrangements were made for other fish to be taken at suitable seasons. It must be realised that no immediate result can be expected in such a large area of water, but it is hoped to establish the fresh water shrimp, which should in the future provide a. valuable addition |to tlio existing food supply. The department has under consideration the erection of huts for anglers in t certain localities in the Taupo district. The following officers were elected: President, Mr. H. S. W. Iving (Auckland); vice-president, Mr. J. H. Reed (Invercargill) ; secretary and treasurer, Air. G. J. Park (Auckland); executive, Messrs. W. M. Luxford (Wanganui), McGregor Wright (Christchurch) and T. Scott (Dunedin).