Fish farming ‘unfortunate’

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33069, 9 November 1972, Page 16

Fish farming ‘unfortunate’

Concern that legislation now permitted fish farming in New Zealand was expressed by Mr T. D. Anderson at the monthly meeting of the council of the North tanterbuiy Acclimatisation Society last evening.

Mr Anderson said that from the outset the society had protested against fish farms being allowed by submitting detailed papers to Parliament and waiting on the Minister of Marine. "I think it is unfortunate that this piece of legislation is now on the statute books,” said Mr Anderson. He said he would raise the matter again at the society’s annual meeting next week. The fact that fish farms were prohibited in the Taupo and Rotorua acclimatisation

districts could only lead people to think that there was some concern about the risk of spreading disease, he said. It appeared that one of the first farms would be established in Canterbury, but the person responsible "has not seen fit to call for a dialogue with our society.” “The object of our sport is being prostituted to profit by the setting up of these farms,” said Mr Anderson TAR LEAKAGE Criticism of members of the council and the Water Conservation and Pollution Committee, for not attending the scene of a recent leakage of Ur into the Heathcote River, was made by Mr S. G. Chidgev, who said that only he and a field officer at< tended.

“The pollution committee was formed to look after this sort of thing. Where were they?” asked Mr Chidgey The chairman of the committee (Mr P. C. Dawson* said the duty of the committee was to see that some action was taken against offending parties. The secretary (Mr H. B Barker) said that all that needed to be done had been done, but he could say no more in open meeting as the matter was sub judice.