PECULIAR CATCH.
UNKNOWN FISH LANDED.
SAID TO BE A SEA SNAKE
HAUL AT MERCURY BAY.
A very unusual catch 'is recorded from Mercury Bay in the shape of an unknown fish.
The specimen is over Sft. long, and has jaws of some 6in. in length, armed with some vicious-looking teeth and tapering down to a point. The teeth are set well back in the jaw, and are conical, the poison "ducts being plainly visible.
This visitant was hauled up from very deep water by a, well-known fisherman, Mr Lon Colhoun, who has spent some 50 years fishing around the New Zealand coasts. His version is that it is undoubtedly a sea snake. The specimen was secured on Monday and transported over to Thames by the Thames Fisheries’ lorry, where it was frozen, and is now to be seen in the window of the Thames Fisheries’ retail shop in Pollen Street. In the words of a ,passer-by who inspected it, “It would be a nasty customer to find at the end of your line.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS19280824.2.22
Bibliographic details
Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17438, 24 August 1928, Page 4
Word Count
173PECULIAR CATCH. Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17438, 24 August 1928, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Thames Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.