PROTECTION OF SEALS
AN OPEN QUESTION The desirability or otherwise of protecting seals or game fish which are enemies of food fish was raised at the Acclimatisation Societies’ Conference yesterday, when the president (Mr. L. O. H. Tripp), said he understood seals were protected to-day. He was told however, that there was a good deal of poaching going on. and it was suggested that the Government make full inquiries into the matter. If the seals could be properly protected there would be a most valuable industry for New Zealand in seal skins. Mr. C. A. Whitney (Auckland) stud that seals had been shot off the coast of England and Ireland, and men were getting a good living out of it. Seals fed on food fish, as did the sword fish, the shark aud the king fish, and it was an important question whether they should protect them where they harmed the fish food supplies round the coast.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 289, 6 September 1928, Page 10
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157PROTECTION OF SEALS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 289, 6 September 1928, Page 10
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