PACIFIC FISH
ITEHAVING QUEERLY VICTORIA, Wept. 10. Pilchards have .joined the list of Pacific fish acting .strangely this year, according to British Columbia ii.-li-ories officers who returned from a tour of the wet coast of Vancouver Island. West coast plants are getting pilchards, but the fish arc immature and devoid of fat, it was explained. A shortage of 500,000 gallons of oil from the same quantity of pilchards taken last year Is being anticipated in consequence. Reversal of the usual route taken !>y soekeyc salmon to Frnser River spawning grounds was recorded earlier in the year, coupled with an unusually heavy inn of salmon to Alaskan waters. Moon fish, rare in southern wafers, were taken in trawl? til IJcluelel and al San Francisco, pointing to vagaries in the Gulf Stream from Japan.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 9 October 1936, Page 3
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132PACIFIC FISH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 9 October 1936, Page 3
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