A HAUL OF PORCUPINE PISH.—A net full of porcupine fish being lauded in a trawling net on the beach at Port Stephens, New South Wales. These fish inflate themselves with air to the size of a football, and frequently burst the net and escape back to deeper water. To prerent this the fishermen dash in with an iron spike and stab the fish.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 15 March 1935, Page 6
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63A HAUL OF PORCUPINE PISH.—A net full of porcupine fish being lauded in a trawling net on the beach at Port Stephens, New South Wales. These fish inflate themselves with air to the size of a football, and frequently burst the net and escape back to deeper water. To prerent this the fishermen dash in with an iron spike and stab the fish. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 15 March 1935, Page 6
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