Big tuna catch
Twenty-six tons of blue fin tuna, believed to be the largest single catch of the fish landed at a New Zealand fishing port, were yesterday being discharged at Gisborne. The fish are the first major catch of a new Taurangabased company, New Zealand Tuna Industries, Ltd, from their 84-foot live-bait, polefishing vessel Pirimai. The tuna fishing off Taranaki was the first new success for the fishing industry since the National Development Conference, the reader in applied fisheries at Victoria University (Dr E. B. Slack) commented in New Plymouth. The present season had verified earlier predictions there was now no doubt that tuna fishing was commercially viable, Dr Slack said.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32524, 6 February 1971, Page 16
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