SALMON NETTING

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26399, 18 April 1951, Page 5

SALMON NETTING

Sir,—Anglers and the general public will be interested to learn that a Queensland visitor now in New Zealand recently saw New Zealand smoked salmon marked up for sale in Sydney fish shops at 34s 6d per lb. The Marine Department officials keep netting tht Highbank tailrace and are having the fish from this source smoked. It is obvious that the New Zealand public are not getting the benefit of cheap salmon to justify Marine Department officials’ continual netting instead of conserving the fish. If the officials persist in their present action the Rakaia river will soon become, like the Waimakariri, netted out. Why not erect a wire-netting barrier at the tail-race junction with the river? It is high time local members of Parliament took some action and had the salmon controlled by the Acclimatisation Societies before it is too late.— Yours, etc.

. ANGLER. April 2, 1951. [“No permits whatever have been granted this year for export of salmon to Australia or elsewhere,” said the Senior Fishery Officer of the Marine Department, Wellington (Mr D. F. Hobbs) when this letter was referred to him. “The quantity of salmon likely to be taken this season at Highbank, and marketing, will probably be substantially less than that sola in previous years by licensed anglers.”!