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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3459, 26 January 1880, Page 3

Mb Whitcombe has supplied the Taranaki Herald with the following information with regard to whitefish, whioh the Government are endeavouring to introduce into the colony :—Whitefisb. (Coregonus alba) indigenous in the Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior, Northern States of America (United States). The fish has been acclimatised in various other American lakes, among others in Lakes Tahoe, Tulare, San Leandro, Dormer, Sereno, Ac, in California. Of these, Lakes Tulare and Sail Leandro are at least as warm as Lake Taupo in this island ; probably their temperature is even higher than that of the latter. The whitefish is described as the most valuable of all fresh water fish, ranking as a food fish above every other variety ; it is extremely delicate in flavour, and grows to an average of one foot to eighteen inches in length, and to a weight of a pound and a half to two pounds. They take bait fre«ly, and are caught in nets. They are essentially lake fish, and will thrive anywhere if the water is deep enough and has a current running through it, and the bottom is sandy and gravelly. Their food consists of the small Crustacea adhering to the rocks and stones in fresh water lakes.