TROUT-NETTING INDUSTRY. RECENT CRITICISM. [BY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO THE POST.] AUCKLAND, This Day.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19, 24 January 1911, Page 7

TROUT-NETTING INDUSTRY. RECENT CRITICISM. [BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL TO THE POST.] AUCKLAND, This Day.

Ihe Government trout-netting nidus try, which has been criticised by the Mayor of Wellington (Mr. T. M. W>lforcl) as bsing against the interests of fly-fishers, was discussed with a reporter yesterday by some Aucklanders who are interested in the subject. Mr Wjlford's contention was wholly upheld. According to what was said, it seems that the anglers have all along felt that the netting has seriously affected their sport. The mouths of the streams are the spots where the fish most do congregate, and where the fly-fishers naturally expect that their gentle efforts will be reward-, cd. It is stated that when tho nets of the State have been a few times drawn the anglers have to labour tho long day through, and be satisfied with but small baskets instead of the larger hauls that the fame of the lake and its actual numerous population lead them to expect. As to the trout that the Government takes with its nets, some of it is sold fresh, and some of it is smoked. Not much of the trout appears to be reaching Auckland, though -'it is impossible to discover the quantity from any local authority ; but some of the people who have taken the trouble to procure il. have spoken very highly of its excellence in both the fresh and the smoked forms. Whether due to ignorance of the supply or to the high prices oharged tho numl or of enquiries made ior the fish have not been large.