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Story: Volcanic Plateau region

Stripping a rainbow trout

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Stripping a rainbow trout

Trout were sliced and gutted after being caught. This trout is being stripped at a state hatchery in the Rotorua area in the 1940s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-000046; F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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How to cite this page

Malcolm McKinnon, Volcanic Plateau region – The lure of trout, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15166/stripping-a-rainbow-trout (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.