FISH CONSERVATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23923, 25 March 1941, Page 8

FISH CONSERVATION

ROTARY CLUB ADDRESS The principal guest and the speaker at the Auckland .Rotary Club's luncheon yesterday was the Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs. Discussing the control of trout fishing, he said every angler knew of the excellent results that had followed from his transfer of food to Lake Taupo. He had had complaints from fishermen who said they had had a bad year, but his reply was that he was not concerned one iota whether they caught the fish, so long as the fish were there. Mr. Parry said he had discovered from his own observations that fish in the thermal regions were spawning practically all the year round, and since then effective steps had been taken to bring them back to the natural season. Ho believed it would be better for the conservation of the fish to close the season at the end of April. There was no other country in the world, Mr. Parry said, that gave such fresh-water trout fishing as New Zealand was able to offer visitors. In answer to criticism of the sport of game shooting, he said that all his life he had shot for food to use, and he had never shot just simply to kill. Among those specially welcomed to the luncheon were Commander J. P. Aiding, United States naval observer, Mr. A. CI. Harper, of the Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, Mr. F. E. McKenzie, president of the New Zealand Council of Acclimatisation Societies, Mr. 11. Mayer and Mr. D. Taylor, Kotarialis'from Wellington, and Mr. N. Taylor, of Wellington.