CRAYFISHING IN SOUTH
Call For Limit On Licences (N.Z. Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Aug. 5. Unless the Government limited the number of crayfishing licences soon, the far southern coast of New Zealand would be inundated with northern boats which would deplete crayfish stocks in the area, the president of the Southland Fishermen’s Association (Mr R. J. Ballantyne) said tonight. Crayfishing at the Chathams had not been as good as expected, he said, and many boats would be returning soon. "These men were mostly trawlermen before they went to the Chathams and they won’t want to go back to wet fish after a taste of crayfishing,” said Mr Ballantyne. “If something isn’t done we’ll have up to 100 boats coming, to the deep south and the crayfish will be wiped out within two years,” he said. He knew of two Lyttelton boats coming to Southland to look for crayfish and had heard rumours of others coming, he said.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31750, 6 August 1968, Page 26
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