FARMING FISH
New Industry Advocated (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 6. The development of a fishfarming industry in saltwater lagoons, tidal inlets, and lakes was urged by Mr N. E. Kirk (Opposition, Lyttelton) in the House of Representatives today. He said this could open up a big, new industry and earn overseas funds. If production costs could be kept down there would be an unlimited outlet for fish production. Mr Kirk said Asian countries last year imported 2,060 million United Stales dollars worth of fish and there was no reason why New Zealand could not' get a big share of this market. Speaking on the Marine Department estimates, Mr Kirk said New Zealand had hundreds of square miles of inland water and coastal lagoons which could be used to grow fish as a controlled crop.
He said he had seen huge fish production from small ponds in Sarawak. Mr Kirk said there was a 50.000-acre lagoon in the Chatham Islands suitable for the development of a fishing industry. The trouble With the present fishing industry was that, “like Topsy, It had just growed,” he said. “We have to find a way of lowering costs of catching and marketing fish."
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29638, 7 October 1961, Page 12
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