WHITEBAIT SEASON

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1934, Page 11

WHITEBAIT SEASON

PROSPECTS IN THE SOUTH. Though the whitebait season opened in the North Island at the beginning of the present month, there is yet another week to run before the fishing is legal in Canterbury waters. Last season was only average, and though there was a fair supply of good quality fish from the local waters, the consignments which arrived from the West Coast were not of such a high standard. A Wellington fisherman stated last week that the prospects seemed good for the first part of the season at- least if the weather remained fine. This he attributed to the indications of ah early spring. In some previous seasons when there was no protection on the fish they had been sold in the shops as early as July, but this had been caused by a false spring. With a dry spell the whitebait should be plentiful in the early part of the season, but if there is stormy weather there may be no supply until the end of August. Even in the peak of the season floods discolouring the rivers are liable to run the supplies very low. No supplies aye shipped to the South from the North Island, as the price would'be prohibitive.