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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.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.

Atlantic Salmon

(Salmo salar). Salmon eggs were first imported in 1868, and until about 1911 many shipments of eggs from Great Britain, the Rhine, and North America were received. Although liberations were made in many river systems, they became established only in the Te Anau – Manapouri – Waiau River watershed.

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