SALMON AND TROUT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3188, 12 September 1917, Page 8

SALMON AND TROUT

6~ ' ARRANGEMENTS FOR.LICENCES GOVERNMENT SHOP IN WELLINGTON Answering a. question regarding fishing licences in the House of Representatives, tho Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. | G. W. Russell) said that the season t'er ' trout fishing was not to be altered. The I season in South Canterbury would begin ! on October 1, and would last until April 15, or tho Tuesday after Easter. The fishing season in the quinnat salmon rivers, tho Waitpki and the Rangitata, however, would close on January 15, unless salmon licences had been taken out. It was intended, added the Minister, to issue salmon licences for the reason for these two rivers only. The licences would givo the right to take tv.ut also. The Government had gone to tat ex- ' pense in acclimatising sjilmon, aud itwas entitled to the revenue from this source. It was not intended dining the coming season to make any specially drastic regulations relating to fishing, in the salmon rivers. The Government hoped, however, to be able to provide a large quantity of quinnat salmon for the public by 'engaging trawlers, or launches to fish off the mouths of tho salmon rivers. The Ministor mentioned that the road between Tokaanu and AVaimarino would lie completed before the opening of tho fishing season. Arrangements would be made for the transport of fish, and ho hoped then to be able to convey a very large quantity of trout from Lake Taupo to Wellington. "We are conside-ing the advisability of establishing a Government fish shop in Wollington," said Mr. Russell, "in order to bring fish to the tables of the people at the lwvist possible price." ; Mr. Russell added that the term's on which licences' wore to be issued to visitors to New Zealand were under consideration. It did not seem reasonable that a tourist should be able to fish in r.ny part of New Zealand after paying only 1 ono license fee. The fishing was extraordinarily cheap, and the tourists could not object to paying at least a license fee for each island.