Check on foreion vessels

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34086, 25 February 1976, Page 11

Check on foreion vessels

<.V Z. A^octafroi» INVERCARGILi The Navy fishery protection vessel Pukaki arrived in Bluff on Sunday after reports during the week that Japanese trawlers were fishing inside the 12- ’ mile limit oft Southland. The Pukaki will patrol the area with the Ministry of ■ Fisheries and Agriculture vessel Ngati Moki. The senior fisheries officer {at Invercargill, Mr J. Clausen. ;said that he had received ■ further reports of Japanese trawlers suspiciously close to ’the 12-mile zone. “Apart from that, I am unable to say anything further until these reports have been) checked, and we will be continuing our vigilance with this in mind,” he said. Japanese and Russian trawjlers have been reported off I the east coast from Lyttelton to the southern parts of New ; Zealand recently, with much ’activity off Stewart Island. Radio reports monitored durling the week-end indicated 10 {Russian vessels were working iclose to the Canterbury Coast off Godley Heads.

Tennis.—lllie Nastase deI throned Jimmy Connors for the National United States indoor {tennis championship. 6-2. 6-3. 7-6. snapping the American star’s i string of three straight titles in $39,000 event