MILES OF DEAD FISH.
FLOATING IN COOK STRAIT.
\Yhen the Union Company's ferry steamer Tainahinc was about half-way across Cook Strait at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday on her way from Picton to Wellington she passed through a huge shoal ot dead fish for a distance of two miles. Owing to the roughness of the sea it was impossible to make an estimate as to the area of the shoal. The fish, which were drifting across the Tamahine's bows in thick patches of thousands at a time, appeared to be blue cod. The phenomenon may possibly be attributed to some submarine disturbance, but when the matter was placed before the Government Seismologist (Dr. Adams) he was unable to throw any light on the subject. It wilt be I recalled that shortly after the Murcbison earthquake several steamers encountered similar shoals of dead fish in the Tasman Sea.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 255, 28 October 1929, Page 17
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