TRAWLING EXPERIMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 6 April 1907, Page 2

TRAWLING EXPERIMENTS.

*». _ Per Tress Association. lXinedin, April 5. On the estimates last year appeared a vote for £2OOO for trawling experiments. Under that authority the Minister of Marine has arranged to charter for three months the Napier Trawling Company's Nora Nivcn, now on her way out -to the colony with a crew of ten expert (irimsby trawlers. The charier is to begin immediately on the vessel's arriv.il next .Monday, or for such months as it may be determined as best suited to carry out the experiments. Mr. Millar states that the idea is to take the vessel to places where no trawling has liceTl done hitherto, and it is hoped that the results will prove that lish is plentiful, and can lie supplied to the public at a cheap rate. To ensure the experiment being thorough, Mr. Ayson, Inspector in the Fisheries Department, will be placed in charge. The Nora" Nivcn will probably begin her operations at Stewart Island, and go right up to the Chathams, then to Lyttelton in a direct line, so that all the fishing beds off the N.Z. Coast will be tested'. The breadth of water and the results of each haul will be noted, and the information thus obtained will m all 'likelihood be embodied in a comprehensive report for the benefit of the public.