THE OYSTER BEDS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—Permit me to echo Mr. E. Ford's re> marks auent the southern section Northern oyster beds. There are but a few weeks' picking in the whole beds here, and the., oysters generally are small, so much so that it is the impression here that the beds should have had another year's rest at least. Then is much reason to show that this present mode of working the oyster beds is simplj disastrous, and most likely to lead to very poor, pickings up here for yean to come. As an old hand I would advocate the throwing open of all beds except those worked recently, and by scattering the boats, minimise the wofnl destruction of growing oysters that goes on at present under this wretched system, for it only tends to bring on long years of poor and scanty picking. There is but a short supply on this bed up here, and we shall want part, anyway, of Coromandel open before many weeks are over.—l am, etc., Oysterman. Russell, 7th April, 1897.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10414, 12 April 1897, Page 3
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