GOOD FISHING.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1923, Page 1

GOOD FISHING.

(■real call-lies of flounder have been , made by the new seine net carried on by one of the privately owned (riiwhis operating in ilauraki Lull. ‘Wc are heLing them by the tony neelarei' an employee o| the trawling vnmpany to an Auckland ‘Star" reporter. The new seine net has revolutionised fisliing in these waters. Flounder will soon be cheaper than schiinpper. .Flounders were on sale at one li sit sin.., in Auckland on Friday at three lor a sibling, hid some of them were so ---jnriJl that it would take at least thief to make a meal, and the fact was roniniontcd on. one man declaring Mint if the law allowed such small fish f this variety to he caught then tin law ought to be amended to increase the minimum size. “IT they're going to operate in that way,” he said, ‘fliey will soon clear out the Lull'. !■: my ojiinion, the (lounder breed in the Lull' and stay there until they are of mature size before going out to sea. If all the trawlers get to work with these new nets, poking out in the shallow waters, they will wipe out all the small flounders and beggar ihe whole business, s () that by and by we won’t he able to get a flounder at all. it is time the Lovernmeni looked into file matter and took' proper action to protect our fisheries from the ravages of

a. coinuierdialism whili thinks only for the haul of the moment. ’ The new method of trawling enables comparatively shallow waters to he worked and here the flounder had been found to lie very thick. It is proposed to equip other trawlers with the seine net. when trawling will be “revolutionised” and flounder made “cheaper than sehnapper*’—or. at least, so it- is expected.