GOVERNMENT TRAWLING OPERATIONS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 May 1901, Page 3

GOVERNMENT TRAWLING OPERATIONS.

The experimental trawling of the Doto for the present season was completed with the operations of the Taranaki coast last week. The Government now proposes to charter one of the Hawkes Bay trawlers to trawl that Bay outside of the small portion of it now being worked by the local trawlers. In conversation with a Post reporter, Mr Ayson, Inspector of Fisheries, stated that the operations of the trawler would be fully described in his report to the Government summing up the r L suits. Mr Ayson said that the quantity and variety of fish taken in Poverty Bay were very good, and that a good even bottom existed between Gisborne and Tologa Bay. In the Firth of Thames large quantities of fish were obtained, the depth being from five to fifteen fathoms. Two or three tons were sometimes lifted in an hour and a half. Off Kaipara very good trawling was met with, and from Kaipara to New Plymouth the bottom was very good, although for that matter very little rough bottom was worked throughout the cruise. Generally the best results were obtained in from five to twenty fathoms.