Trout farming
Sir,—The recent trout-farming item on “Close Up” was biased. It must require some gall to wish to commercialise the trout, which was introduced to New Zealand as a game fish and has been propagated, protected, and. managed by the licence fees of generations of anglers. This threat, on top of what irrigation is doing to much of the trout’s prime habitat, makes a nonsense of the claim that the trout belong to the public. These men seem not to mind poaching on the incomes of the commercial marine fishermen, at present struggling against the large foreign interests. When French anglers were permitted to market their catches of wild trout, the farmed product quickly dropped into its right niche — down among the rubbish lines. Ironically, successful trout farms are those supplying fish to restock waters, where natural reproduction is unable to cope with the fishing pressure. — Yours, etc., A. W. CREEDON. June 23, 1983.
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