QUINNAT SALMON

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 43, 21 February 1925, Page 6

QUINNAT SALMON

NETTING TO BE PERMITTED

FISH THOROUGHLY ESTAB-

(»i MUJKAfK-SrtcfAL TO THBrOST.) -" AUCKLAND, This .Day, ' The.nettiug qf-guinnat jialnion, may;b e;S old;.to,<lie lJ? ublic,..is. being permitted this season, under certain restrictions.' Speaking" 'at the new .works opened by%Sanford; Limited, in Auckland, yesterday, the H6n; G. j. Anderson, Minister of Marine, referred to the matter, and: said that the fish might be netted ' either, in the rivers of Canterbury. a,nd x Ota g o, or in the sea. Quinnat ' ixT'}*^l??* Probably the finest fash.food obtainable, and now that the fish, was thoroughly established the Department would not be justified in. allowing this waste of food to continue. .That was why netting was beings permitted this year. v The Handling of salmon commercittlly was : a new thing in New^.Zealand, and.it had been necessary to impose certain restrictions until experience had been gained. This year's activities were more or less of tlie nature of. an experiment, and fishing for ?r"£?M Sfr w, ould be permitted in the Clutha, AyaUaki, Baligitata, Rakaia, and v\laimakann, and their estuaries, while sea fishermen wpuld be allowed to voperate within a radius of. 500 yards of the mouths of the riversi; The Minister said there was good ground for su PP obl* eS wore experience liadTeen ■ ttained that the public would be able to salmbn, and,by and by, -no doubt ths • J?2 nl, ng wduatrv Would also be established. . .;.:>'.■ \. - .