Can Pay

C hark Fishing Can Pay

or years there has been talk immercial shark fishing in es in the Islands, but nothing vsr come of it TS have always shown that ly consistent programme of shing for sharks in a particu :ea from a shore station has ed in the sharks moving away the area after a few months, vever, commercial fishermen ting north of Auckland make 7 nice profit from school-shark as a sideline to their fishing ther more edible varieties, itamin oil factory in Auckland ntly pays about 1/9 per lb bark livers, and it is payable lip the carcases frozen to 3y, where shark meat sells several fancy names— ugh the Sydney public doesn’t it, because it wouldn’t eat : knowingly. tool sharks round New Zealand ge about 25 lbs in weight, and

the liver represents about 10 per cent, of that.

Once in a while amateur fisher men—and sport fishermen, too— take a shark running into hundreds of pounds weight, and that’s where the money lies. But the livers have to be delivered quickly to the refinery.

Freezer or ice-equipped craft would be almost essential for supplying livers to a vitamin oil refinery in the tropics, as the oil deteriorates rapidly at tropical temperatures The Gilbert and Ellice Islands have for years had a shark fin export trade to the East and it is possible that a small oil refinery could be operated there in con junction with the existing industry.