TAURANGA FISHING DETERIORATING
Mention harbour fishing to a Mount Maunganui resident interested in the sport, and there is a "chain reaction" almost as spectacular verbally as an atomic explosion is visually, says the "Bay of Plenty Times." Never before, experienced anglers say, has the fishing been so poor as it has been this last summer. The decline in the summer and quality of the fish caught has been very marked in the last few years. It is attributed almost unanimously to two main causes — netting (both legal and illegal) and the spoiling of the mussel beds over which the fish feed. A survey of opinion among Mount Maunganui anglers showed that action is needed to arrest the very serious deterioration that has taken place. "Two or three years ago," said a keen handline fisherman, "it was common to get a dozen or 15 good snapper in an hour or so in the waters near the entrance. Now you are lucky if you get even one. The same applies on the banks, and as for Hunter's Creek, I sat there for four hours the other day for half a dozen fish."
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Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 117, 23 April 1954, Page 5
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