After trout were introduced to New Zealand waters, their numbers sometimes became too great (with an impact on fish size) or too few. This man is releasing juvenile trout (‘fry’) into Lake Rotorua to build up stocks in the 1920s.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)
Reference:
1/4-002059; F
Photograph by John Dobrée Pascoe
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