MILES OF DEAD FISH.
FLOATING IN COOK STRAIT.
When the Union Company's ferry steamer Tamahine was about halfway across Cook Strait at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday on her way from Picton huge shoal of dead fish for a | distance of two miles. Owing to the roughness of the sea it was impossible to make an estimate as to the I area of the shoal. I The fish, which were drifting across the Tamahine's bows in thick patches of thousands at a time, appeared to be blue cod. The phenomenon may possibly be attributed to some submarine disturbance, but when the matter was placed before the Government Seismologist (Dr. Adam) he was unable to throw any light on the subject. It will be recalled that shortly after the Murchison earthquake several steamers encountered similar shoals of dead fish in the Tasman Sea,
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 3074, 2 November 1929, Page 2
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