NETTING TROUT IN OAMARU HARBOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 27

NETTING TROUT IN OAMARU HARBOUR.

At the commencement of the fishing season the Acclimatisation Society received a communication from the Marine department in. regard to the rights of persons who make their living by netting off the coast of this district, and requesting the society to be lenient with those persona. The society replied that it had come'under their notice that fishermen and others had r been netting trout in the waters of the bay and at other places and exposing them for sale, and asked whether or not the department was desirous of protecting those persons, pointing out at the same time that, if such a course were permitted, all the efforts of the Government to introduce salmon into the waters of the colony would be entirely frustrated. In reply to these representations the following letter was received by the secretary of the society from the department : — " Sir, — I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 4th inst., with reference to the regulations aa to netting in your society's district, and to state, in reply, that there was no intention whatever to restrain the society from preventing persons from netting tront and offering them for sale, and the department would be glad if the society would use its best exertions to put a Btop to the practice." It would bewell if our fishermen would exercise caution hot to come into collision with the authorities- whose duty it is to foster the growth of our salmon supply.