"CALLER HERRIN'!"

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 974, 15 November 1910, Page 4

"CALLER HERRIN'!"

AN OFFER FROM THE TERRA NOVA,

Only those who have been in the Old Country and noticed everywhere the vigorous activity of the fishing industry am able to realise the comparative poverty of New Zealand in the matter of its fish supply. Mr. D. Q. LiUie, who ia in charge of the marine dredgrog operations' which are to fora part of the scientific inveetigatione to foe carried out by the members of Captain Scotfe expedition to the South Pole, mentioned the matter to a representative of Ths PojiiyioN during the course of an inter-, view yesterday. The remark lad been made, he said, that it- would be time enough to talk about the deep sea fisheries when we got the fishermen. Just now there were only a few here and there. The speaker did not agree with that. The soientist should pioneer the industry, for the fish which were so plentiful and popular in the north were not to be found in our own waters, and hence the future of our deep sea fisheries was governed -to some extent by questions of acclimatisation. He was aivare that th« experiment had once been "tried, of importing herring, but they had not survived the tropics. Mr. Lillie then announced that upon the return to Lyttelton of the Terra Nova from M'Murdo Sound, after leaving the Polar expeditionary party, it wa3 their intention to fill in the time by making trawling cruise., of the New Zea- , land coastal waters. The crnise ( wonH ■have for one of its.objects a study of the conditions governing the development of the fishing industry, of suitable shoals, and so on. As the undertaking would involve considerable expense, the Government had been approached in the matter of assistance. In order that the Dominion should derive the fullest benefit from the investigations made during the cruise, the Government would be'invited to send a, party of scientific men as its representatives, and every assistance would W accorded these gentlemen in 'the observation and collation of data.