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

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that a year aftet fingerlings of about three inches had been released in a streanr<br />

only possibly as many as 6.3 per cent. were alive, whereas24.r per ce't. of 'ativeborn<br />

fingerlings of the same ãge survivecJ.<br />

on the question of relative growth of hatchery fisl-r and wild fish, Neeclham ancl<br />

Slater (1943) fou.cl that the growth of the latier ln nn.quuiperiocl i' the same<br />

water u¡as, in length, about twice that of fish r-eleased at ï length of 3.7 inches.<br />

The comparison is not au ideal one, as the hatchery fish were rai*bolv arcl rnost<br />

of the r'vilcl-fish were l¡rown trout, álthough the growth of two wil¿ rair-rbor,r, *.as<br />

llì,,iï:rlo with that of 'the w'cr b'ow, trout rather than that of trre rratchery<br />

to thrive a.ci to ,..r,r, nuroil.lince<br />

suggest that the survival of rvil

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