FISHERIES SURVEY
Urgent Action Sought ; The Canterbury Chamber of will ask the Assoi ciated Chambers to request I the Government to make an I urgent approach to the Australian Government on the question of assessing commercial fishing resources in the Australasian area. The chamber will also request that immediately afterwards an international fishery convention be convened to take steps to fix the level of optimum productivity. The resolutions were adopted by the council of the chamber at its monthly meeting.
Mr M. L. Newman said that many of the world’s major fishing grounds were on the point of being fished out. The big fishing ships of the world would soon start to come to New Zealand waters. Australia, said Mr Newman, was awake to the need for action on the lines suggested in the two resolutions.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30846, 3 September 1965, Page 11
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