The Fisherman's Catch

NZ Truth, Issue 1016, 16 May 1925, Page 5

The Fisherman's Catch

STRJKE AT THAMES

owing to. the low- prices offered by three- fish companies at ThaYnes, the local fishermen went "on strike" last week. "The .fishermen (writes " Vlud--bank") reckoned that they ought 'to get 5d per pound for flounder and 2d per pound for schnapper — and people who pay a shilling or more for the former and sixpence and over for the latter consider that their claims are fair enough. The companies offered 4V£d and l%cl, which would appear to leave them over and above a handsome profit. The men claimed that fish were scarce and that they were not able to earn a living' at the prices quoted.. As against this, one company quoted two men who, they declared, earned £70 m a week. But £70 weeks, according to fishermen, come, only once m a blue moon, and. are something iii the nature of a discovery of gold. Probably if some of the dh'ectors of these profit-raking fish companies which buy so cheaply and sell so dearly were to do the actual fishing themselves m the bitter cold of winter they would alter their ideas of the worth of the catch to the fishermen ."■ ' •■■* .-■■'.;•' ...