Shortage op fish

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 40, 15 February 1918, Page 8

Shortage op fish

To-day there' was a mark;d shortage of fish'in Wellington, and'csalfcW •.'.t'perienoF.d difficulty in coping "with tha i demami. The- scarcity is -atiribated to the indifferent weather, and as the local j fleet is depended on to a large extent. ' reasons for the shortage will bo _ recognised. One well-known merchant, in co;> veVsation with a Post revortar, gave some inierestij-jg particulars on the big;, prices niih::; to-day,: and said tljas'at-thc market this- morning hs had' _ to _ pay • prices v.eve: before asked of him h'B.i 'his esperier.ee in the fishwig >rif!ustry. Hake cost 4-3 7d each to-day, the avsr'age price at ordinary times being is 3d -co Is 9d—while the. market pricj ior butterfish. was Is Sd each 'as compared with -the average of 9dpsr Sail usually paid. The dealer espiained that of late iho results of the', Island Bay venters have, owiiig t-o' the weather, been unsatisfactory, r.nd for two or three \r.eek; past practically no flatfish has been arriving' Jrom the Sov.nds district. As v. resr.ri greatly advanced prices have b.'^-n ruiiiig, iHid ns]i has been daily ';cco;ni:ig niora a luxury than eve: 1' before.