SCIENTISTS AT SEA
Scientists now go to sea in a small fishing trawler and share the perils and discomforts of the fishermen in their efforts to ensure that the public’s filet of fish shall be perfectly fresh. The British Government's fishery research station at Aberdeen has acquired the trawler “City of Edinburgh” and fitted up a small laboratory on board. Already methods whereby the period of freshness in fish can be extended from less rhan a week to about 10 or 12 days, without a revolution of present methods of stowing fish in ice at sea, have been worked out.
The fishing fleet is being forced to go further and further afield for its catch, and, accordingly, many of the trawlers have to stay away for anything up to a fortnight. These results will b*% therefore, of immense benefit to that typically British figure, the tough, weatherbeaten North Sea fisherman who daily risks his life to provide the land-lubber (with his favourite dish of “fish and chips;’’ but they are also valuable to all parts. of the Empire where a fishing industry exists.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1931, Page 5
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