Co-operate

The Tuna Won't Co-operate

Headache for SS Marine Products

A Tmtt/N Suva, Jan. 22.

LTHOUGH hitherto unpublicised, there is no secrecy about unofficial reports that the tuna-fishing indus try of South Seas Marine Products, Ltd., has encountered formidable technical difficulties.

At no time have any of the reports suggested the slightest want of enterprise foresight or any other necessary quality ■ fla , r °ld Gatty’s solidly-organised endeavour to turn big fish into big busi fnf F 1 * The trouble is the awkward fact that in that area of the South Pacific of which Fiji is the centre, fish refuse to be caught in quantity by methods used in other Pacific waters.

The Senirosi, one of the company’s vessels, is now trying out a mammoth purse-seme net somewhere in the Yasawa Group. This is the latest of the com panys tu-eless efforts to solve its prob lem. The net, 1,800 ft. long and 180 ft. deep, is equipped with a purse-line oper ated b 7, a winch. The idea is to draw the net like a bag round large schools of fish.