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Northern Advocate, 9 December 1918, Page 4

As the warm weather approaches, large sharks become more 'numerous in our ocean waters, frequently travelling together in schools (says the Sydney "Sun" of the 7th in.st.L Among these may be mentioned the great white shark, the blue shark, the grey nurse shark, and the blue pointed. Through the operations of the State trawlers a number of sharks which were thought to be rare in these waters have been found to be not uncommon. At the present time large sharks are beginning to be troublesome again to the trawlers. The Brolga, on her last trip, lost a fine bag of fish through this cause. The sharks pursued the net-full of fish to the surface of the water, and then tore large holes out of the tail-end, or "cod-end," as it is called, liberating the fish. In this connection, Mr Stead states that it is worthy of mention that our diversified experience of trawling on New Zealand coasts shows that the Sharks arc never more than an actual nuisance. It is important to emphasise this, because one of the arguments used against the initiation of this deepsea fishing in Australian waters was that sharks would be so ban as never to let the fish come to the surface. As a matter of fact, they are not nearly such a trouble to the trawlers as the dog sharks are to the driftnet men in the North Sea waters.