SARDINE INDUSTRY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 5 July 1939, Page 9

SARDINE INDUSTRY

i "T.\ It 1.1 IS lIM ENT AT .UVKI.ANh | possible COM FAN V MAKING j 1N \ ESTKLAiTUNs' AU KI.AM). 4111 July. j In view oi' liie piohibiiion of sardine 1 ' supplies undei* the import, restrictions, a ; loejil fi sl l j ll company is proceeding v.-jth plans fur investigating the olablishmcnt ' u: a sardine industry at Auckland. ! A.s this is a mallei involving consider- ■ Tie expense, detailed tests will first be j made. Some years ago regular cate lies were j made in Lite Hnuraki Gulf of fish which ' w-'ie classed by scientists as Sardinia nco ' pilchard us, a near relative of the Euro- j pean Sardinia pilchardiis. fish canned in ! huge quantities in the .Mediterranean and | exported all over the world as sardines. Catches of these fish, running into lons, weie secured i ntlie gulf and salted down m barrels. They were obtainable a! several city fish shops, though not in tins. It was stated at that time, by men who had experience of Mediterranean sardine fishing, that the gulf would be regarded as a variable goldmine by European fish-J After some difficulty an Auckland com. pany lias secured small nets of the light tv pe for sardine fishing. It has in its employ two expert sardine fishermen, with European experience, and it is proposedshortly to make sample catches of the fish I" be found in the gulf. Arrangements have been made with a local company engaged in other types of (•aiming, to put up tins of fish, after iequisitc processing, in order to test their '• suitability for canning. If results arc i satisfactory, consideration will be given to j the possibilities of establishing the indus-l try on a commercial scale. *