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Western Cape

he hatchery Ernest Latour started at Ohlsson’s Cape Brewery in Cape Town in 1892 was moved to Jonkershoek outside Stellenbosch in 1893. Records there show it, a quarterly journal of the Cape Piscatorial Society. In 1896, the first rainbow trout arrived at the hatchery and in 1899 they sent their first batch to Natal. Rivers were opened for trout fishing for the first time in 1903, on certain stocked rivers in the Western and Eastern Cape – permits and flyfishing only.

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