N.Z. FISH INDUSTRY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 961, 2 May 1930, Page 10

N.Z. FISH INDUSTRY

GREAT POSSIBILITIES OFFAL FOR STOCK FOO6 Front Our Resident Reporter WELLINGTON. Todfv Saying he was convinced that ti were great possibilities ahead of & fishing industry in New Zealand. S James G. Micliie, a prominent wlab sale fish merchant, of Aberdeen, v: is visiting New Zealand, yesterday cussed ways :n which the indist might be made a success. “I paid a visit to a farm a bolt) miles from Auckland.” said I Miehie. “a farm stocked with o*r cows and pigs, and I was disappo:ai* to see that the pigs were not vk they might have been. It struck* that the question of the nutrition w only of pigs, but of cows as well, i* matter that could be profitably ir.m tigated.” Mr. Miehie said Danish pig-breoir made extensive use of fish offal i food. The popular belief that fish me affected the flavour of bacon w*» c worthy of notice. The high statdr of excellence which the Danish te reached was largely the result of s scientific apportionment of fish me to the ration supplied to the pigs. Apart from the meal used for few ing animals, there were other pmr able uses to which fish offal could fr put. sue l as the manufacture of gte He could not over-stress the imper ance of by-products, so far as the fte ing industry was concerned. TV made all the difference between cair ing on profitably and carrying on - a loss. There was another aspect to bear sidcred. The encouragement of *? fishing industry meant that more sc took up a seafaring life, ard in a mi girt country such as New Zeate* that was of the utmost >aw no reason why eventually >- Zealand should not build up an exp’ - trade in fish.