Attention Spear-fishermen!
p. 68 · Read in the full issue
Mr. Jack Bennett, of Raiatea, French Oceania, sends along this photo of one that did not get away. The giant cod weighed 313 lb and measured 6 ft. 11 in.
when hang: up. It was landed with a spear-gun and plenty of hard work from Fetuna Pass, Ralatea, Mr. Bennett would like photographic evidence from spear-fishermen in New Guinea, Fiji, Rarotonga and elsewhere, that they have landed a larger fish—and so would readers of PIM!
Largest known fish of this type caught by other methods in Tahiti waters, our correspondent says, weighed 381 lb.