FISHING BY PARACHUTE
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS A method of fishing that may revolutionise the industry and be of considerable aid to scientists has been developed by Dr. John Wheeler, director of the Bermuda Biological Institute. He uses a new kind of net on a parachute principle operated entirely free from all connections -with surface craft. It descends to depths of at least a mile and then automatically rises with fish in a bucket arrangement above the parachute net. Attached to the' bucket and projecting into the net is a funnel opening into a pipe through which the fish pass from the net. Attached to the bottom of the parachute is a piece of rock salt which dissolves and allows the parachute to rise to the surface on n petrol-filled buoy. Dr. Wheeler has conducted successful experiments 10 miles off Bermuda. *In addition lo bringing up specimens that are usually dead when caught in a dragnet, Dr. Wheeler thinks his parachute net may help elucidate the reasons for "bends" in divers.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 256, 10 January 1941, Page 8
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169FISHING BY PARACHUTE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 256, 10 January 1941, Page 8
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