International Fishing
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At Canton Island
BRITISH and American fishing organisations, based at Canton Island, airfreighted a monthly average of 30,000 lb of frozen fish to Honolulu in the first half of this year.
The industry, according to an article in Whites Aviation, has been made possible by a special Pan American Airways freight rate of 25 cents a ton-mile (15 cents per lb).
The organisations concerned are Phoenix Island Fisheries (British) and Marine Products, Inc. (Ameri can) . Both employ Gilbert Islanders, and most of the fishing is by netting.
The technique involves making the fish “crab-drunk” with mashed up hermit crabs, after which ia short bamboo pole is waved over the school of fish. The victims, if not frightened, are then ready for hooking by means of crab-baited lines.
Large mullet are often taken at the rate of 1,000 lb an hour until the fishermen, at reefside vantage points, are exhausted or until the school moves away.
f Miss Pauline Scott, of Raro tonga, and Miss Jean MacDonald, of New Zealand, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Varney and of Mr.
Oscar Nordman at Papeete during the Bastille celebrations.
t Sole broker for copra in Indoi nesia is now the Persatuan Export!.
Kopra Indonesia (PEKSI), estabi lished by the Copra Exporters’ As. sociation and the Indonesia!
Chamber of Commerce.