SEA FISHERIES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20781, 16 July 1937, Page 8

SEA FISHERIES

ALLEGED DEPLETION OF GROUNDS EVIDENCE TENDERED By Telegraph- .’ress Association AUCKLAND, July 15. Evidence concerning the depletion cf the fishing grounds was given by Mr W. P. Endean, M.P., and representatives of the Auckland Yach. and Motor Boat Association at the sitting of the Sea Fisheries Investigation Committee. Evidence also was heard from the principals of 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 questions on which they expressed the views of their companies were licensing for boat building, wholesale and retail marketing, restrictions on fishing operations, 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.