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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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Mackinaw

(Cristivomer namaycush). Mackinaw, or the Great Lakes Char, were introduced in 1906 and hatched at Christchurch. They are present in Lake Pearson, Canterbury, but other liberations appear to have been unsuccessful.

Co-creator

Brian Turnbull Cunningham, B.SC., Senior Fishery Officer, Marine Department, Wellington.