Toll of Small Fish
Fishing trawlers, have been seen recently by' Mataora Bay residents, near Waihi, working close , inshore. The effect is that smaller-sized fish arc being taken in great quantities? from the shallower waters, along the coast. ' Thousands of under-sized schnapper are thrown back into the sea in a more or less- lifeless , condition and comparatively few survive.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 14
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59Toll of Small Fish Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 14
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