THE FISHING INDUSTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18118, 16 June 1922, Page 8

THE FISHING INDUSTRY.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

APPLICATIbN TO AUCKLAND. Interesting facts regarding the fishing industry in Britain, as compared with conditions in Auckland, were supplied yesterday by Mr- Gilbert Sanford, managing-director of Sanfords, Ltd. Since his trip to England toward the latter end of last -year, in connection.

latter ena vi linn jciu, »»» ».«».».~n.«..^>»., mainly, with the purchase of the Thomas Curcell, Mr. Sanford has kept in very close touch with matters affecting the trawling industry and the fishing trade generally, with the result that every English mail brings him information on the subject. ; In Hull, one of the great fishing centres in England, said Mr. Sanford, Seine netfishing is developing fairly rapidly. Some 16- or 18 locally-owned drifters adapted for that method of fishing are in active operation. The Seine net, however, is essentially a fine weather proposition. Experiments, he said, were being conducted at Swansea, having for their object the substitution of nickel for tin with which tin-plates are coated. A company had been formed to deal with the invention. The production of rustless plate was aimed at. The trip of the Thomas Currell from England to New Zealand, continued Mr. Sanford, has been referred to in the April issue of the Fishing News. It was there stated that it was the longest trip yet made by any Yarmouth trawler. " The Thomas Currell," continued the article, " has set up a new record and done it handsomely. Formerly named the Enrico, she was employed during the 1920 herring season in running sprinkled herrings to Altona for the German market, and made a series of good tripe between Yarmouth and the Elbe. Everyone will wish her all succesis in her new sphere of operations and on the other side of the world. She will be a perpetual reminder of the fame of Yarmouth as a fishing centre." Referring to the supplies coming forward at Auckland, Mr. Sanford considered they compared very favourably with those "at Home. Our trawlers had been particularly successful of late, considerably over 1000 baskets of fish having already been landed this week alone.