Flounders
Sir, —Mr B. J. Kenton, president of the Timaru Fishermen’s Association, has not cause to grizzle over a few flounders. I claim that, morally, private persons have as much right to indigenous fish as anyone else. By unfair regulations, the industry has almost a monopoly and the amateur to harshly regulated and rigorously limited in every way. Today my longdistance travelling with one set net only for a pitiful two dozen flounders make my outdoor pleasure unprofitable. Because of high export prices, the industry makes a welter of vacuum cleaning the ocean and the public are exploited outrageously. Red co the people’s fish, to dumped to keep prices up. There to plenty of fish for all, so why this dog-in-the-manger attitude of the trade? The regulations are overdone. Good luck to the hand trawlers. They do no barm to the industry.— Yours, etc., G. J. WATSON. December 8, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30930, 10 December 1965, Page 16
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