OUR FISHERIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 133, 29 October 1914, Page 5

OUR FISHERIES.

PROFESSOR TRINCE'S REPORT. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. . Wellington, Last Night. JpTofessor Prince, Commissioner of Fisheries for Canada, has reported to the Government on the fisheries of New Zealand. He recommends the continuation and extension of survey work of the Marine Department, provision to prevent poaching, acclimatisation of herring, and'larger fishing craft. Cold storage should be provided at Stewart Island and Nelson. • A larger demand could be created by the manufacture of dried fish, powder, boneless fish, dried fish, chilled fish, and tinned fish and paste. Better facilities are wanted for transportation on railways. He also favours the systematic advertising of advantages offered by New Zealand •trout fishing, and the acclimatisation of several new sorts of fish from the United States and Canada. In regard to seals all killing should be prohibited for a lumber of years. The seal shore should be patrolled, and all sealing operations carried on under license from the Gorcrnment. ProfessorPrinoe names f 100(10 to £20,000 per annum as the amount the Government might well spend on fish culture. He protests against the river pollution that is going on, especially in the Taieri. He advocates steam tm.wling as the best means of supplying the public.