SCOTTISH TRAWLERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 50, 28 February 1923, Page 8

SCOTTISH TRAWLERS.

THEIR DEPRESSED TRADE. TO BOYCOTT GERMAN FISH. (From Our Special Correspondent) LONDON, January 10. Will there be a boycott? That is the question agitating the fishing community, and the general public as well, in the* granite city of Aberdeen. The question came to' a head on Monday when German trawlers landed as much fish in the Aberdeen markets as did the Scottish boats. Yesterday, too. they landed 1_« tons out of a total for the port of 290 tons of fish. One prominent fish salesman has announced that he will not sell Germancaught fish, and following his action, trawl owners are to ask other salesmen to follow suit.

Meetings of trawl owners and shippers are being held to consider the situation. The Skippers' «nd Mates' Guild asked the assistance of the trawl owners in backing up such action as refusal on the part of lisli salesmen and others connected with the industry to handle North Sea German-caught fish, and that men who so struck against the Germans would not be penalised. This assurance

was given. At a meeting of the Aberdeen Harbour Board a leading trawl owner, Sir John H. Trvin, stated publicly that the in* vasion by German vessels fishing in the North Sea would go hard with the Aberdeen fishermen, who, with the depredated German exchange, could not compete with German fishermen landing fish at the port. He believed the Aberdeen trawlers would have to be laid up.

The local trawl fishing industry is in such a depressed condition that hundreds of fisherman are idle and they naturally resent the invasion of the Aberdeen fish market of Germans, who land catches of North Sea and Icelandic fish.