BIG GAME FISHING
RIVAL FOR NEW ZEALAND. TUNNY lif ENGLISH WATERS•LONDON, November 21. With reference to the tunny fishing that has bee,n going on off Scarborough this season, the journal Shooting Times says:— “For many years the famous fishing grounds at Bay of Islands, New Zealand, waters off the . cape, and several areas off the American coast have stood talone as the world’s finest- big-game fishing centres. This year’s tunny fishing an the ..North Sea off Scarborough has, however, provided them with a rival. Close on a hundred tunny hive been -caught, and the season is not yeOver. The .new ground may the variety of species found in New Zealand or Santa Catalina, but the numbers, and some very big fish, are there.
“Mr Mitchell-Henry’s 8511 b. tunny, caught on September 11. establishes a new world's record. This fish surpasses 'by 931 b. the largest tunny taken on rod and line 'from the older fishing grounds —a specimen of 7581 b. taken by Mr Zane Grey in. Nova Scotian waters. The same transatlantic record -had,, of course, already been beaten during last ye'r by a narrower margin by Colonel E. TPeel’s tunny of 7891 b.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1933, Page 8
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