FISH AT ROTORLA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 36

FISH AT ROTORLA.

GRIEVOUS WASTE. ' (Feou Our Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, January 21. Writing aboUt fishing at Rotorua a Wellington resident who 1b spending a holiday In ithe Hot Lakes district says: "It would break" your heart to "see the waste of fish jjhich ie < permitted to take place here. People" in Rotorua soon tire 'of trout, and ifr is diffioult for anglers to get rid of ftbejr bags-^-in fact, things have got to Buoh'a pass that it is hard to say who is the more generous: he who gives or he who v deceives. 1 ■ was on the pier one day and iaw a launch-man endeavour to make use 9f vbme splendid" specimens of fish. - One person after -another refuse^ them, until finally he- threw the pick of his party's catch on "the wharf and headed off for the open, saymg 'It's a «hame to see good fish like this going to -waste.* The private Bale of trout, I eur»pose yon know, is prohibited: That- might be all very well, but it seems to me taa* tJi« Tourist Department should establish a depot where people dould leave their surplus fish. It might then be frozen, -for there is a refrigerating chamber in Rptorua', and exported by %& d&partment, either for sale or for use in ■ nospitafe, etc." •