THE PROFITABLE SHARK

Evening Star, Issue 25849, 20 July 1946, Page 8

THE PROFITABLE SHARK

AN AUSTRALIAN VENTURE FORMER DUNEDINITE INCLUDED Tiger of the seas, the shark provides an increasingly wide variety of products. .Cooked, the flesh is reported to be edible, if not tasty, a form of leather comes from the skin, and a health-giving oil is obtainable from the liver. The result of these developments has been to multiply the number of these fish brought home 'by. fishing boats. A report is now to band that

in Australia a former Dunedin man, Mr. J,-Colbert, is. actively engaged in this business. Mr Colbert was a pupil of the Otago Boys' High School about 1918, and during the recent war served with both the United States and ,the Royal; Australian' navies, rising to the rank of lieutenant. Together with two Australians, Messrs G. H: Heyen (also formerly a, naval officer) and Gordon Connon, ;.Mr Colbert is one of the partners in Forty Fathom. Fisheries Ltd.. of Port Adelaide, and in a recent letter to relatives in, Dunedin he states, that their ,72ft auxiliary ketch, 'Cecelia,,'was shortly to leave oh,, her ! 'first : shark-fishing expedition. The. Cecelia is sipecially fitted for the.work arid; has mechanical appliances' ; fbr : hauling 'sharks aboard. She'also has'"a, 10-ton .freezer which'will friable her to Te'main at sea until she, litis a full catHi and permit visits to remote waters along 'the;cqast. Mr Heyen!' skipper of ? the< ketch.- \viis a lieutenant-commander-in the R-A.N. and has hcen at sea all his : life, commanding his first ship at the age of 26. -In. addition to this venture -it is .reported that the'Americvnn-River Fishing Cdmpany's v ßsft motor; boat/ Caipe.vforroris., will : son"? •be , 're, f> dy for. shark, tuna, and salmon fishing in South Australian waters' ;' ' >■