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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14846, 25 February 1919, Page 5

- Giving, evidence before tho Trawling Commission at its sitting at the Thames on Tuesday, Captain Peterson, dredgemaster, Hauraki Plains, who had been in the trawler Minnie Casey, said he believed the fish in the Hauraki Gulf were fairly permanent. He thought they were of a different species to those caught at Russell. The main destruction of flounder was due to their natural enemies, but tho Minnie Casey's operatipns materially, helpecf to djpiinishVthe • supply.,! sis they disturbed breeding grounds, Thames fishermen's, operations also helped, but they did not destroy immature fish like the trawler did', : a_ the mesh of the fishermen's nets was four inches, and a half against the trawler's twoinch mesh. He believed the waters of Colville and Rodney were . the breedinggrounds of fish. "Hans Jansen said' he' |vas fishing in Hauraki Gulf 22 months, fnd before that was in the" North Sea. Ie said! the trawler had proved destructive in tho latter place. There were seventeen fathoms on" the Dogger Bank, ( yet when the trawlers came linesmen had to abandon it owing to. trawlers destroying the young fish. Ho believed Hauraki Gulf was a good breeding ' ground. 1 An Engagement Ring well bought, 5 wgll chosen, gives satisfaction to all jjarfc ties'. Grieve, Jeweller, tries to excel "in his stock of Engagement Rings.*