Plan To Quick-Freeze
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Fish
From Our Own Correspondent
Cairns, Jan. 3.
MR. C. B. ALEXANDER, who has had 25 years’ experience in pearl areas in the North West of Australia re cently purchased two vessels, at Towns ville and Cairns, and is making plans to operate a £lOO,OOO fishing industry in North Queensland and Papuan waters.
He plans to use quick-freezing trawlers and he said that fresh fish would be filleted, quickly frozen and distributed by air to the Eastern States. To start the industry he would have to bring freezing experts from USA and Britain, where quick freezing of fish was being done.
Mr. Alexander at one time operated 10 pearling vessels in the North West.