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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 5

A well-known fisherman who has come out for the trout fishing tells a story of tho ways of some of the people in Los Angeles (says the "Auckland Star"). He was looking at some very fine pictures of Mr. Zane Grey catching swordfish at the Bay of Islands. It was an exciting picture. "Where is that?” asked one of the bystanders. Without a shadow of a blush the man accosted answered, “Oh, Catalina, of cours.” Axidth.it was how they treated the splendid pictures over which the New Zealand Government had gone to such expense. Slowly but surely, however, the fame of New Zealand as a swordfishing ground is spreading, and more and more sportsmen will he coming this way. Discussing tho question of the disappearance of tho swordfish from the waters of Catalina Bay which was once the most favourite spot on the American coast for this form of fishing, a well known no. thorifv said it was duo tn the whole sale destruction of the giant kelp round the const, the keln being, used, among other things, for the making of certain chemicals.