‘Fishermen should free marlin’
PA Auckland Game fishermen should stop moaning about the marlin that Japanese commercial boats take and start freeing the marlin that they hook, according to a visiting Australian game-fishing expert and conservationist Criticism of the Japanese harvest has arisen after poor marlin catches during contests in the Bay of Islands. But Mr Mai Florence, a fishing journalist and film-maker, said in Auckland yesterday that it was no good for recreational fisherman to criticise the Japanese. “It is the pot calling the kettle black,” he said. “It does not matter who kills a marlin — it’s still dead. “It is a pointless, stupid and selfish exercise to catch fish and waste them.” Mr Florence is a firm advocate of releasing game fish.
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Press, 20 May 1987, Page 47
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