Papuans Learn
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How To
Smoke Fish
DECEMBER 1 marked the begin ning of a new native industry on the Papuan coast.
Natives from the Manu Manu area arrived in Port Moresby with a boatload of 400 lbs of smoked fish, caught and treated in the Galley Reach area.
The new industry is the result of lessons in mesh-fishing and in modern methods of smoking and preserving taught by two European officers of the Department of Fisheries.
Manu Manu was chosen as the area to start the smoked fish in dustry, as local natives own few coconut groves and depend on fish for money for village funds.
If successful, it could eventually bring about a long-awaited reduc tion in the price of fresh fish
offered for sale by natives at their market area in Port Moresby.— Moresby Correspondent.