AMERICANS WRONG ABOUT MAKO SHARKS
“ONE OF BEST FIGHTERS” Some American visitors to the Bay of Islands consider that the mako shark is not a good fighter, and for that reason will not bother to catch him! r PHIS opinion was advanced at a meeting of the Auckland Institute last night, when the habits of sharks on the Xew Zealand coast were being discussed. • There is no doubt about the fact,” said Mx*. L. T. Griffin, “that the mako is one of the best fighting sharks we have.” Tho reremai, he instanced. was a shark generally consider of little use as a fighter. Mi*. A. T. Pyecroft who presided, remarked that it had been definitely established that the grey nurse, which caused so much trouble on the Australian coast, and particularly for New South Wales, was practically unknown in Xew Zealand coastal waters.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 367, 30 May 1928, Page 16
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