SHARK KILLED
DOGFISH FIGHT FOR CARCASE.
CHRISTCHURCH, November 12
An 18-foot bottle-nosed shark wais shot in Charters Bay in Lyttelton Harbour this Week. Immediately hundreds of dogfish took part in a voracious battle for possession of the carease. The shark was shot close inshore, and in their efforts to share in the spoil the dogfish threw themselves, out cf the water, and the noise made by their threshing could be heard for a considerable distance. Four of the largest were shot from the shoj;e v At this time pf year hundreds of the fish infest the shallowsand mudflats at the head pf' the and great destruction is done, appually by the youths of the district who, armed with axes and ether heavy weapons, organise attacks on the dogfish.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1932, Page 8
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