SEA OIL MENACE TO HERRING INDUSTRY
PAYING £250,000 A YEAR TO DESTROY FISHERIES. LONDON, Nov. 21. Sir Cooper Rawson, Conservative M.P. for Brighton, at a meeting at the House of Commons last night, said he hoped a Bill might be passed to make oil separators in ships compulsory. “I have'seen wild birds washed up at Hove which have either been killed by oil or starved because their wings have been damaged by it,” he said. Mr H. de Vere Stacpoole, the novelist, said that oil sank and affected tho spawning grounds. Floating oil killed the small fish food on the surface. He added:— “I believe that oil pollution is the reason why our coast fisheries have deteriorated. Unless something iw done conditions will become a great deal worse and herrings and bass will gradually disappear. “Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year is wasted in oil pumped into tho sea, which means we are paying £250,00 a year to destroy our fisheries.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6811, 15 January 1929, Page 8
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