New Fishing Areas Sought in Australia
BBISBANE.— Dr. Harold Thompson, wbo for six years was director of fisheries in Newfoundland and is now in cbarge of tbe Australian fisberies investigations, bas' been in Queensland * giving atteution to tbe questiqn of locating new fishing grounds and tp devising tbe efficient metbods of exploiting tbem. ' ' • j -Inqluded "in tbe equipment of . tbe vessel he is using for tbe survey "is | a device wbicb is trailed astern and , records .tbe amount of food , organisms in tbe water. By tbis method it is possible'to. decide wbetber tbere would -be i sufficient fisb to warrant operations of : a trawler. ' 1 Dr Tboxnpson says tbat tbe' Great : Australian Bight is tbe greatest trawling ground.yet found in Australia, but 1 large and powerful vessels would be 1 required to travel in that area. Dr. ] Thompson bas been coilccting data at Various points along tbe Queensland coast from wbicb fisbermen operate, )
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 18
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