Fish Expert at Noumea
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MR. H. Van Pel arrived Noumea from Holland la July to become fisheries offic to the South Pacific Commissia He will study ways of increasing fiJ production in the South Pacil and encourage the adoption modern catching, processing ar marketing.
He will work along the lines rj commended by the conference fisheries experts held under tl; auspices of the SPC in Noumea 1952. It was then found that whi fish was a major item in Pacit islanders’ diet, methods of catchir and distributing it were inadequat Mr. Van Pel had six years skipper of a steam trawler in tl; Atlantic and North Sea. He w.\ director of the Bureau of Fisherii in Indonesia and later, as a mem ber of the Food and Agriculture CK ganisation, he was sent to Pakists to design a fishing harbour Karachi.