TRAWLING EXPERIMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 8

TRAWLING EXPERIMENTS.

. — +— : ■• .. '■ THE NORA. NIVEN'S SECOND CRUISE: . The. trawling steamer, Nora Nivon, having trawled her nets round, both coasts of the North Island 'and as far as Hpkitika do,\n the Wostlarid coast, in'. tho course of her second oxperimontnl cruise, was,handed back to tho New Zealand .Trawling and Fish Sap-; ply Company on Wednesday night. Tho Government has finished the investigation of our fish domains, which the Nora Nivcn vms hired to carry ■ out, and, the 'period' of her hiro having concluded, she will now, after an acquaintance with the slip, .bo .used by.tho company .for commercial-trawling, a'commoncomont. being made in Hawko's • Bar waters;. .... What the Nora Niven caught on her second cruiso must remain a subject for conjectu e' till' tho departmental report is made public. The vessel loft Wollington. on .September 5, and worked to tho. west of Cook Strait, in Tasman and Golden. Bays, and down the West Coast as far as Hokitika: Next sho wont. up.the East.Coast to Auckland, and worked in the Hauraki Gulf, outside .the, limit which the law assigns. Operations were! thon carried on round the North Capo, and. down the.West Coast.of this island to.Now. Plymouth, whence tho steamer crossed to' Farewell Spit and West Wanganui, ■ further.' south, arriving back in Wellington on Wednesday. Mr. H. Stephonson, Inspector of. Fisheries' at Russell, had chargo of tho. trawling operations. It is announced that the general results' haveibeon satisfactory, but further.informa- ' tion is not obtainable at presont.