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N.Z. MARINE DEPARTMENT-FISHERIE,S BULLETIN No. .į

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society's policy. Tl.re scale of operations has since varied according'to needs, and<br />

lvas n-roclifiecl by transport difñculties in war years. Quantities shifted in different<br />

yeafs are variously clescribed as, "ranging from fingerlings to three and four-yearolcls,"<br />

"yearlings ancl ttplvarcls," ancl "fish of 5 in. to l?in."<br />

O¡ the basis of clata given earlier, the survival value of these fish might be frour<br />

1.00 to 200 times that of unled hatcliery fry. Thus, 67,810 salvagecl fish might<br />

represent the survival of from between 6,000,000 and 13,000,000 fry. Yet the fish<br />

saved were collectecl and transportecl for a flaction of the expenditure of-time<br />

ancl r-norley which woulcl be requirecl to procluce even 1,0@,000 hatchery fry.<br />

In Marlborough, where sporaclic salvage work had been undertaken earlier,<br />

almut 120,000 fingerlings, mostly of 3 in. to 4 in. in length, are reportecl to have<br />

been salvage cl in 1937. ldo trout hacl beer-r releasecl from hatcheries ir-r Marlborough<br />

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