TROUT SANCTUARIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 14

TROUT SANCTUARIES

Our Own Corre&pondentA ,

Need for Conservation - ROTORUA AND TAUPO WATERS

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ROTORUA, Last Night. The need for measures to conserve the trout fishing in the Rotorua and Taupo districts and the advantages v^hich. would be gafned by the declaration of certain sanctuaries were mentioned to-day by the Minister of Tn* ternal Affairs, tho Hon. W. E.Tarrv, who has been visiting Rotorua on departmental business. ' , "We should Havo one or two spots liko, for instance, Wostern Bay, where the surrounding waters could be closed for a period from fishermen," said Mr. Rarry. ' 4 There the fish would have respite from the onslaughts of some anglers who have no passing thought lor conservation. That seems to me the only way of saving our undoubtedly spiendid fishing from a blow from which it would not easily recover. In any American fishing magazines we can find talep of Oeterioration ln fishing which would make any angier's heart sad. If that happened" in New Zealand it would be the end of our tourist traflic." Eeferring to the suggestion that more access should be made available to^ some of tho rivers, tho Minister said caro was nocessary, and pointed uit that iu parts of the Tongariro kiyer, where trees and shrubs had been cut, away close to the banks, serious c I'jision' had been experienced. "The water has cut into the banks to such an extent that to save some uuportant fishing places there will be need for the expenditure of a fairly large sum of moncy," coucluded Mr. Batty,