BROWN TROUT EGGS
PURCHASE OF 200,000 AUCKLAND SOCIETY DECISION The purchase 0 ( 200,000 brown trout eggs for hatching and liberation in the streams of the Auckland acclimatisation area was decided on at the meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society council held in Auckland last evening. The council decided to obtain the egss from the Urey Acclimatisation Society, Greymouth, during the coming spawning season. They will be hatched and tile young llsh reared to flngerling size in the Auckland society's new' hatchery at Puketurua and liberated next year. Where the iish will he liberated, however, has yet to he decided.
It was pointed out at last evening’s meeting that brown trout had so far been liberated only in one or two of tbe rivers in the district, due to the difficulty of obtaining sufficient supplies. What liberations had been made, however, were satisfactory.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20737, 22 February 1939, Page 6
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142BROWN TROUT EGGS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20737, 22 February 1939, Page 6
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