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Community-Wide Consequences of Trout Introduction in New Zealand Streams

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Twenty-five years ago not one of these rivers had the least interest for the angler … the rod of the fisherman never cast a shadow on their waters; every one of these mighty rivers, every one of the thousand creeks and streams that flow into them … were tenantless and profitless to the sportsman (Spackman 1892, as cited in McDowall 1990a) … brown trout have since been stocked in almost every conceivable lake, river, or stream, such that the present naturalized population encompasses every suitable ecological niche within the confines of New Zealand (MacCrimmon and Marshall 1968).

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Flecker, A.S., Townsend, C.R. (1994). Community-Wide Consequences of Trout Introduction in New Zealand Streams. In: Ecosystem Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4018-1_19

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