SCIENTISTS AT SEA

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18393, 29 July 1931, Page 9

SCIENTISTS AT SEA

KEEPING FISH FRESH. PERIOD ALREADY EXTENDED. (From a Correspondent.) LONDON, June 25. Scientists' now go to sea In a small Ashing trawler and share the perils and discomforts of the fishermen ‘n their efforts to ensure that the public’s filet of Ash shall be perfectly fresh. The British Government’s fishery research station at Aberdeen has acquired the trawler City of Edinburgh and fitted up a small laboratory on board. Already methods whereby Hie period of freshness in fish can be extended from less than a week to about 10 or 12 days, without a revolution of present methods of stowing fish In ice at sea, have been worked out. The fishing fleet Is being forced to go further and further afield for its catch, and, accordingly, many of the trawlers have to stay away for anything up to a fortnight.. These results will be, therefore, of Immense benefit to that typically British figure, the tough, weather-beaten North Sea fisherman, who dally risks his life to provide the landlubber with his favourite dish of “fish and chips”; but Ibey are also valuable to all parts of the Empire where a fishing industry 'NjstS.