FISH INDUSTRY CONTROL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19378, 16 July 1937, Page 5

FISH INDUSTRY CONTROL

DEPLETION OF GROUNDS MARKETING PROPOSALS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Evidence concerning the depletion of fishing grounds was given by Mr. W P. Endean, M.P., and representatives of the Auckland Yacht and Motor Boat Association at the sitting of the sea fisheries investigation committee yesterday. Evidence was also heard from the principals of Messrs. Brown Barrett Limited respecting the canning of whitebait for export.

Lengthy statements covering many departments of the industry were made by representatives of Auckland Fisheries Limited and by the Auckland Trawling Company Limited. Among the questions on which they expressed the views of their companies were licensing for boat-build-ing, wholesale and retail marketing, restrictions on fishing operations, the rejection of fish by wholesale markets and the reorganisation of the local industry. The witnesses also submitted statements respecting the earnings of boat crews, the desirability of a Government survey of all boats and the proper qualifications of boat-masters in seamanship and navigation. The committee will leave Auckland for Whangarei next Wednesday and will sit at northern towns until August 3, when it will go to New Plymouth.