Northland Sports Fishing
Legend Honoured
LEGENDARY
NORTHLAND
SPORTS fisherman, ���Snooks��� Fuller,
was inducted into the Legendary
Captains and Crews Hall of Fame
of the International Game Fishing
Association at a special ceremony
at the association���s Florida
headquarters on February 16.
Snooks is the third member of the
Bay of Islands Swordfish Club to Snooks Fuller
be inducted, after Alma Baker in
2006, and John Chibnall MNZM in 2012.
The Fuller name is synonymous with the Bay of
Islands, as Snooks��� grandfather started the iconic New
Zealand marine business Fullers in 1886, delivering mail
and supplies by boat around the Bay of Islands picking
up cream from the various farms, which later became
popular among tourists as the famous ���Cream Trip���.
The Fuller family���s involvement in the marine industry
meant that a marine career was always on the cards for
Snooks. At 19 he designed and built his now famous,
sports fishing boat Lady Doreen, using kauri from trees
felled near Kaitaia and milled at Rangiahua. The timber
was transported to Deeming Brothers boat building shed
at Opua, where the Lady Doreen took shape and has
become one of New Zealand���s best known sports fishing
boats. She is still in use 61 years later.
Snooks will be inducted alongside five US sports
fishing legends: Captain Jimmie Albright, Captain Bob
Lewis, Captain Frank LoPreste, Captain Gary Stuve and
Captain Laurie Mitchell, who fished in the Bay of Islands
with the American angler and writer, Zane Grey.
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FISH CONSUMPTION FALLS
THE NORWEGIAN NEWSPAPER Aftenposten reports that fish
consumption in that country has fallen from 38kg per person
in 1999, to just 34kg in 2011. At the same time consumption of
meat has increased from 36kg in 1953 to 75kg in 2011.
Knut-Inge Klepp from the Directorate of Health said it is a
paradox that fish consumption should fall in a country like Norway
that has good access to fresh fish. However Callander McDowell
report a decline in fish consumption across most of the developed
world. In Japan, for example, consumption of meat has overtaken
fish and the UK continues to show a steady decline.
Norwegians are turning away from fish because their stores do
not offer a good selection of fresh fish. Instead, their choices are
mainly poorer quality frozen fish, as good fish gets exported.
Aftenposten do not think the emphasis on exports is responsible
for the fall in consumption, nor the lack of good fresh fish
counters. They say the decline is part of a much wider trend
in which the fisheries sector has failed to recognise the needs
of new consumers who simply are not attracted to buying fish.
They believe that the fisheries sector is too busy focussing on
issues of sustainability rather than on what consumers want.
They say that a time will come when all fish will be considered
sustainable, because consumers will have turned away from fish
making supply exceed demand and more. They question whether
the fisheries sector be willing to face up to this challenge?
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