Our Fishing Grounds.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1706, 13 July 1885, Page 2

Our Fishing Grounds.

Correspondence on the subject of (ho development of iisliiriicH in tin- colonies Ims hei n laid on tin- tain'- of the House of Kepresentativcs. “ John McKenzie,” writing to Sir Julius Vogel, gives extracts from a notebook of examinations mailt- in diifeient parts of the colony, from which it would appear that the climate of Auckland, owing to an intense heat, is against the industry of fish curing or preserving. Kish in countless millions frequent (he Northern Coasts : from I’iclon to Cape Campbell is alive with fish, and the climate is more suitable for preserving and cuiing than north of Cook's Straits. In fact, the report stales that all round the coast hsh are abundant, ami mentions Stewart's Island as one of the most suitable places in the world fm fish curing ami fishtinning, possessing the best inshore and oilshore 11-hing grounds in the colony. The report also contains a lengthy summary on the food fishes of New /.eahind l.y l»r Hector, lirfening to the bill for promoting the fisheries of (ho Colony, the Southhind Niws says : bill is one, therefore, that should be watched with the most livi i\ in'eriM, hi rr lls passing must lead to the sju.--dy M-tthiinnt of iSlewart Island with a population of the proper lioßciiption, and one which will aiioid a handy market for Mmthland produce, while at the same time largely developing the trade of the Bluff.”