CONSUMPTION OF FISH.
NEW DEVELOPMENT
(By Telegraph —Special to Standard.) AUCKLAND, June 14.
“Will you have a bit of fired broadbill or fillet of marlin?” is a question that may be put to restaurant patrons in Auckland before ioug. as steps are to bp taken to commercialise these two food and sporting fish found off the New Zealand coast. The steamer Ahuriri, once well-known in the coastal trade, is now located at the Bay of Islands as a store ship for commercial fishing, and arrangements have been made to ship consignments of fish regularly to Auckland. During the last big game fish season at the Bay swordfish weighing collectively 22,200 lb. were caught and afterwards dumped out at sea. It is considered that next season the price of IJd per lb. will be available and that considerable revenue will result. On a recent occasion nearly five tons of schnappor was shipped to Auckland on one trip by a coastal steamer. The new arrangement for storing fish at the Bay of Islands to await shipment to the Auckland market has given a big flllijr to the fishing industry there and during the next summer it is expected that the trade will be greatly developed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 168, 15 June 1928, Page 6
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