Trout farming
Sir, — Mr Duncan MacIntyre’s counterpart in Tasmania, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, has gone to great lengths to justify trout farming. What he failed to add is that a notable Tasmanian trout farmer, after several years of marginal operations, unsuccessfully applied for tariff protection. He also failed to add that his Ministry turned down an Italian trout farm proposal in Tasmania. If trout farming is so great, why this decision? Nor did he add that trout farming on the mainland of Australia in Lake Eucumbene has given rise to wholesale, uncontrollable trout poaching with gill nets and set lines. Prime public trout fisheries are the targets of nocturnal poachers. If we was informed of overseas trends he must be aware of the disease problems of trout farms in Britain and Denmark for example. Dangerous and marginally economic is all trout farming is. — Yours, TONY ORMAN. Upper Moutere. February 8, 1979.
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