The Fishing Industry.

Thames Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 10590, 7 September 1906, Page 1

The Fishing Industry.

TRiAWUNG INI THE HAiURiAiKI GULF-

A!NI AUCKLAND PROTEST-

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent)

1 WEIL.LIN'GTOiN, ■Septemibiei! 6The interestsl of fis'Kermeii received some 'attientioni from the House laust night- 'Mr T- Mackenzie aiskedi the Minister for Marine to recognise that | fishermen do' not receive the cbnaider- ' ation they ahauld- Thel fishing in- '; dustry was being greatly assisted in : oifcher countries-, and it was time New 1 ! Zealand awoke to thle importance of I the indiustiy- ■ It was even impossible |to get bhie 'smallest convenience for them from the State- He;, urged on the Minister the necessity of impnoving the entrance to Waikouaiti Harbour", where at certain. stag;es of the tide fishermen were not able to enterTlie fMinisterl, for Marine said the fishing! industry mi this country was not going; to< be miade by hand fishr ing.. buifc by %iia,wlingi. A 1 gentlemam ■ froini Na,pier had -recently, gone Home for the purpose of procuring a thoroughly equipped steam trawler' to test the fishing grounds off the coasts of the colony- So far asi assistance to fishermen was, 'concerned, whatever oould be done, by the Government would be done- Netting at the niouths of riversy however, wa®- prohibited, except at tteee places, as the netting of fish, at these points spoilt the spawns ing- - "I was reared on fish," remarked Mr MtoLachlaini, amidst laughter- "I j have livied: on fish all my life- I don't I eat any meat ait all-" Tnlen he emferled upon ai condetrnmation- "TJiese angle.rs 'and lardy davdy anein., with their baskets-, rods, and ftaisks — (la.ughtei')-^and othei- necessnuy things whio go down, to the moulfch's of rivers and stay there -all Sunday, why sh'ouidl we not imposie some restriotion upon' these men? They only descrate the Sabbathi ,and I am speaking 1 now as a. Sabbatarian) myself-" Mr Alison entered a protest .against the restrictions that had been: placed on 'traiwling in the ffaoirttki Gulf- Hb hoped tbat when the Minister for Man-ine was 1 considering this subject some attention would! be ..pjiveii to> tihe matter of altering; the" present limits, wihiclh! he said miade it impossible to successfully darry out' trawlinig 1 operations. Thle Ho,n- Jais- McGowan; explained thiat thie H'aniiaiki Gulf. Wais a feeding and!-'spawning: pjrto-und for fishl- "There I was a suffieienitly and -profitable area j for the ttfaiwlers to work, and it would nlot do' foi' the fish to be takein in the restricted area-