Fish washed into bay
PA Auckland Thousands of snapper, mysteriously washed up on incoming tides at the week-end, were found on west coast Coromandel Peninsula beaches along a stretch of about 15km. The fish were found on Saturday morning by residents living along the coast from Waitete Bay to -the granite quarries - on Port Jackson Road. An Otautu Bay farmer, Mr John Goudie, said residents were filling sacks with the fish to take home to their freezers. “I spoke to one of the holidaymakers who had come up for the week-end to fish from the rocks and caught only two snapper,”
said Mr Goudie. “When I saw him on Saturday he was going home with a sack full — and they were free.”
The 20 or so residents of Otautu Bay first noticed the fish being washed into the bay about 9 a.m. The beach was about threequarters of a mile long, he said.
There, were ...between. 10,000 and 15,000 fish. “I would say the snapper were schooling because it is the spawning time at the moment, and a seine fisherman has just. come along and dropped his net round the whble lot of them,” he said. Further report, page 8
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