Sharks In Fiji
p. 53 · Read in the full issue
The well-known Melanesian Mission motor vessel “Southern Cross” has been laid up in the Solomon Islands for the duration of the war.
These snapshots of sharks recently caught by Messrs. L. Bentley and V. Jacka, of Suva, are kindly supplied by Mr. M. I. Rushton. They were caught at Nukulau Island, some 8 miles from the mainland—and Nukulau is well patron ised by week-end parties from Suva. The sharks measured 11 ft. and 12 ft. respectively. One of them had a girth in excess of 6 ft. One con tained 35 young, fully developed sharks. —Photo, by C. H. Meen .