Is On The Wing
p. 59 · Read in the full issue
Now The Shark Is On The Wing
The 'possibility of an export busi ness in shark meat from certain Islands areas was further em phasised in January, when an Auck land firm instituted air-freight ship ments of quick-frozen sharks to Sydney.
IN a December PIM story (p. 47), it was suggested that the Syd ney public would not eat shark if they knew it was shark.
That could well be—but they have been eating and enjoying very large quantities of “flake” and “lemon fish” for years—and those
items are 100 per cent, pure shark.
What is more, the public are evidently paying plenty for it, if it can be profitably caught, quick frozen, and air-freighted across the Tasman.
The sharks concerned average 20 lb in weight after gutting, and are only a very small cousin of the man-eating variety. They are known as school sharks.
The snag in the trade is that Australia has limitations on im ports of fish from overseas sources.
These may not apply to New Guinea, and there may still be quotas for places like Fiji, from where refrigerated shipping con nection exists as well as air con nection at higher freight rates.