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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18764, 18 January 1923, Page 4

A .demand-has been made that the law against Uio use. of explosives for killing fish should rigidly be enforced (writes our Sydney correspondent). It is staled that the coastline for several miles abovo and below Sydney is rapidly becoming denuded of fish because of tho depredations of these fish poachers. The fish they do not succeed in killing with depth charges they drive, [.permanently away. Tho destruction of fish by means of explosives within the threemile limit involves severe penalties, but tho law is evidently more honoured in tho breach than in the observance. Seldom does one hear of a. charge being laid for this offence, although it is authoritatively staled that hundreds practise it every week. The quantities of herrings of British taking landed in the United Kingdom during October totalled 66.42 D metric tons, comparpd with 65,588 metric tons in October, 1921. For tho first 10 months of last year tho bindings ■weighed 221,311 metric tons, whilo for _the similar period in the previous year the weight was 206,745 metric ton 9.