ACCLIMATISATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 83, 28 September 1911, Page 5

ACCLIMATISATION

FISHIXG PONDS FOIt FALMERSTON. „'$ By Telegraph—Press Association. 'V-j Palmerston X., Lait Xight. -4 A largely attended mcetingjof the Ac- ;* elimatisation Society and anglers to- h night decided to establish holding pond* . .e----capable of turning out 30,000 yearlings i" annually in the esplanade reWvc. Ex- V; pcriments conducted with' the town K water in the fountain basin in the A. square resulted in remarkable success ~.-\ in turning' out. yeanling raiuibow trout ;}' during the past three years. Sit is now .*', proposed to establish holding ponds, fed by the water supply, and to turn out •„* 30,000 rainbow yearlings annually, into ' ! , i* the Manawatu, Mangatainoku, Makuri, V Akatarcwa and other district streams. . *; It was stated that streams in this district ''.t which have now brown trout, would, if .|| fully stocked with rainbow, form the 1 finest fly-fishing streams in\ the world C M for three to four pound fish, experienced 4f anglers holding that nowhere else, even '?% in. Now Zealand, ore there, so many and /jjjj such suitable streams o$ from - thte- ""**#s watershed. So far the fry.turned out ii '\Js eaten by big trout and eels, but whero .'„| the fry was held to the yearling stag* . „$ the turning out has been a great sue- "Vj cess. It is proposed to get fry from the -^ Wellington Society and rear' it here. i t The cost of holding ponds is estimated '■>'•';<' at £l5O, of which the Wellington So- '"f ciety, which receives ;CHOO to £4OO an- £ nually in license fees, etc., from the dis- 'J trict, is to be asked for £3O, the rest y>i being subscribed locally. The Borough Council is to be asked for a site and >* water. Brown trout were first liberated ''';' here about Hi years ago, and are in all '.;' the streams, but it is thought rainbow £ trout would be much preferable. „'■"