OUR SEA FISHERIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 8

OUR SEA FISHERIES.

9 , DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS. QUESTION OF RAIL CARRIAGE. It is expected that the full report of Professor Prince, the Canadian expert who inspected the fisheries of the Dominion some years ago, will be ready for presentation to Parliament during its next • J session, which commences in June. His '.' interim report was obtained in 1915, and lin reply to a message from the Minister : ! for Marine (Hon. (i. YV. Russell), the : I professor now cables that he is making 11 every effort to complete his report in '.time for presentation to Parliament thia ' I year. Mr. Russell states that he proposes to bring before Cabinet a proposal iI to extend to fishermen the financial assistance already granted to fruitgrowers for the purpose of enabling them to :j erect cool stores. This will do much, he - believes, to overcome the fishermen's 1 chief difficulty in marketing his catch to 1 ! the best advantage, while on the ground ii of public interest it is just as important % las the provision of cool storage for fruit, j jHe also hopes that a satisfactory form of •Icool carriage for fish on the railways > i will be devised, the present difficulty ■ i being to convey less than a truckload at - a time. The primary object is to secm-e J adequate supplies of cheap fish for the i people of the Dominion, but Mr. Russell . I believes that there are possibilities of • | export to Australia and the East when the resources of the New Zealand fisher- , ies are fully exploited. >