FISH TERRORISED.
" MACKEREL GIANTS " INVADE NORTH SEA. During the past few summers the I attention of Norwegian fishermen has I lieen attracted to the many huge I Mediterranean tunnies which have [ appeared off their coa-st. j Thfi "mackerel giant." as it is called 'in Norway, is one of the strongest and ! swiftest fish known, and it may run to I 10001b in weight. A comparatively small ; one recently netted off Grimsby weighed ' 4001b. At Esbjerg, Denmark, a 600----pound er has been broueht in. Attributing their presence to the warm summer. English fishermen say tha* ; larjre seiioois are roaming rxbout the .North Sea. creating terror among I other n~h. Some think that the absence ' lof herring shoals from their customary | 'haunts is due to the presence of these! i hungry Mediterranean marauders.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 13
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