FISHERY PROTECTION
RESTRICTIONS ON NETTING IN GULF NEW REGULATIONS Further restrictive regulations on | trawling and seine netting in the Hauraki Gulf are to be issued shortly, and i it is the intention of the 3larine Department to put them into operation on April 3, 1930. A draft copy of the new regulations lias been received by the Onehunga Borough Council through 3lr. W. J. Jordan. 31. P.. from the 3linister of 3'larine. Under die new regulations trawlers will be kept outside the Rodney Point- : Cape Colville line for eight months of tho year, instead of for six months, as at present. The inshore area lying i between Coromandel Harbour and Coli ville Bay will be closed altogether to 1 Danish seining, also the Waiheke j Passage and Big Bay (Onetangi), on j Waiheke Island. j The Minister points out that these , proposals are not necessarily the limit lof restriction which may be placed ! upon fishing in the Gulf, but the de- | partment does not feel justified in going J any further at present. The Minister ! says that if it is proved that the existing mesh regulations permit the killing of an unduly large number of j undersized fish, the protection of the 1 fisheries may be more adequately achieved by amended net mesh regulaLtions-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 776, 24 September 1929, Page 7
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214FISHERY PROTECTION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 776, 24 September 1929, Page 7
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