Small Fishermen 'Forgotten ’
(New Zealand Press Association) WHANGAREI, March 7. The development of fishermen’s cooperatives was an essential part of the drive to raise fish exports, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Kirk) said today.
The small fisherman was the forgotten man in the present Government’s fishing plans, he said. “By inaction the Government encourages foreign boats to fish our waters, and the only other encouragement appears to be for investors with the facilities to raise large sums of money,” Mr Kirk said. “Labour believes much more will be achieved if our existing fishermen are encouraged in a practical way to expand their activities. “We believe the co-opera-tive dairy movement has
shown the way, and we envisage co-operatively-owned fish processing and marketing units, as well as larger, co-operatively-owned boats. “We should never forget the men in small boats who have built our internal fishing industry to its present state. “It would be completely unfair if, because of shortage of expansion capital, they were deprived of the right to participate in future export growth,” Mr Kirk said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 18
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