[?]Rqueson Sardines For

Hawaiian Tuna

IE busy United States Fish & Wildlife Service vessels Hugh M. Smith and John R. Manning irned to their Honolulu base in ember after a 15,000 miles cruise he Eastern Pacific, ne of the projects on this cruise to transfer a consignment of ill sardine, known scientifically Harengula vittata, from •quesas to Hawaiian waters. The line is said to occur at times great abundance in the •quesas bays, but on this ision when the Hugh M. Smith ed, the fish were not plentiful, /ever 130 buckets of fish were :ed, of which 20 buckets survived voyage to Hawaii, most of the ainder being lost overboard ,ng a spell of heavy weather, tie object of this transfer is to whether these sardines can be blished in Hawaiian coastal srs as a much needed bait fish the commercial tuna fishermen •ating out of Honolulu. There great scarcity of suitable small at the present time, nlike the Japanese who use )-line methods and dried or dn bait-fish brought from Japan, their South Pacific operations, American boats pole-fish on the ace. Live bait-fish are carried anks on deck, and when a shoal una is sighted the boat heads the area and “chums” the ocean i live fish thrown overboard, e the tuna start taking the -fish they become frenzied and take unbaited hooks with [icial lures, as used by the 3rmen. This way there is no y in re-baiting the hooks. r. D. T. Lloyd has been promoted he post of Director of Lands, es and Surveys in Fiji. Mr. d has been Deputy Director since il, 1954, and has been acting as ctor during the pre-retirement e of Mr. R. V. Cole.