FIGHT WITH BIG TUNA.
*» MEN KNOCKED OVERBOARD. It was only after three men had been knocked overboard and Captain John Larson, of the Beach Haven fisheries, haa been struck on the arm and injured by Iho tail of the monster, ihat a 5721b. ■Una was landed off Beach Haven, New Jersey. Captain Larson and his crew knew they had something out of the ordinary when they pulled in their nets, but until the body of the fish appeared they had no .dea it was a tuna. Very few tuna are ■>oen in those waters. The men got a rope around the fish and started hauling it aboard, but the rope broke and the fish knocked three men overboard and swept its tail against Captain Larson's arm before it fell back into the nut., which it had already ripped in several places. After considerable trouble for several hours the crew got another rope about the fish's tail, and it was hauled aboard and killed. The fish was Bft. lOin. long, and 22in. in diameter through its thickest part*. ' - j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18197, 16 September 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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