FISH DESTRUCTION.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2161, 28 January 1881, Page 2

FISH DESTRUCTION.

Oub readers no doubt have on more than one occasion observed on the fish stalls, exposed for sale, fish, particularly flounders, of such small size as to render them utterly useless as an article of food. Not only is this so, but such wholesale destruction of young fish can only tend to one result, viz.—the entire disappearance from our lakes, &c., of what, properly cared for, would be an excellent food supply. The Legislature has made provision for this facing done, but the law is openly defied and broken daily without any steps being taken to prevent it. The attention of the authorities has, wo believe, been called to the practice by the secretary of the Acclimatisation Society, but the only reply ha has obtained has been that the police force here is not sufficiently strong to enforce the law. If this be so, the sooner steps are taken in some other way to prevent the wholesale destruction of our native fish the better. We have spent large sums of money in introducing fish from other countries, while at the same time wo have peirmitted a waste perfectly uselessly of the beautiful fish in our own waters. We trust that now public attention has been called to this subject, that the authorities will no longer allow what wo consider an abuse of the gifts of Providence to take place.