Gerald Stokell

He attended Broadfields Primary School, and was a keen trout angler.

A keen angler, Stokell wrote a series of studies on trout in Lake Ellismere.

[2] Through this interest in angling, he also came across native fish species, but was unable to identify them due to a lack of published information.

[2][3] From 1938 onwards he began publishing papers on them, describing species and detangling the many names that had accrued.

A direct man with forceful opinions, he left the Acclimatisation Society, stating:Their sole qualification for safe-guarding the welfare of wild creatures [is] the possession of a desire to kill them.Stokell died 10 July 1972 in Christchurch.