DROWNED SHARKS

Evening Star, Issue 19197, 13 March 1926, Page 21

DROWNED SHARKS

A HOVEL INDUSTRY A company with a capital of £150,000 is being organised by Dr Alfred Ehrenreioh, an American piscatorial authority, to hunt sharks in South African waters for commercial purposes. The proposal is to catch the sharks by drowning them. Nets will be laid for the monsters, and once their heads are in the nets their gills will open automatically. Captain William Young, Dr Ehronreich’s lieutenant, shortly leaves England for Natal, where the first station will bo founded. ' “ Wo will be in full operation iu tho course of tho next four months,” said Dr Ehrenroich to a ‘ Daily Express ’ representative. “Wo will bo prepared to handle and turn into valuable standard commercial articles 200 to 500 sharks aud rays daily at our initial stations. LEATHER FOR SHOES. “The scheme is quite practical, and is approved by two small companies engaged in the work. These people made excellent and durable leather from shark skin for some time. Shoes made from shark leather wear much longer than any other kind. We shall not sell our leather at a lower price, however, in order not to interfere with the existing leather trade. The scheme has the support of influential members of the leather trade. The Durban station will only be a beginning, as more stations will gradually be opened all round tho coast. We anticipate that in ten years’ time there will be a great British industry, with stations all over the Empire. employing thousands and thousands of men.’