NOVEL FISHING BOAT
ENTERPRISE AT SUVA To buy live fish was the experience of several Suva residents recently on the arrival from its first trip of a novel fishing-boat built and owned by a Japanese fisherman, reports tho “Fiji Times.’’ It is a fiat-bottomed craft, 24ft long by 4ift beam. Midships is occupied by a salt-water tank, covered with nioveable boards 7J ft long by 41 feet wide, and with 12 to 18 inches of water. Nikada. the owner, was able to supply fish fresh, which had been caught a week previously, by using the tank to keep them alive. The boat is built on the lines of the Japanese fishing craft. There is a sleeping cabin forward, and a compact engine cubby aft of the tank,' with a cockpit at the stern. The boat attracted considerable attention as it lay at the Suva Fish Market.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1040, 2 August 1930, Page 16
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146NOVEL FISHING BOAT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1040, 2 August 1930, Page 16
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