Survey of Fishing Potentialities of the Coral Sea and Southern and Eastern Papua in 1955.

Abstract

Small motor boats and two vessels 60 feet in length, including Administration  ships and a chartered boat from Australia, were used over a period of seven months to assess the fishing potentialities of the Coral Sea and Southern and Eastern Papua. As fishing at sea is seriously handicapped during the south-east season, sometimes for many days at a time, shore based tests from Port Moresby were carried out over a period of six weeks at Bootless Inlet in an attempt to replace part of the fishing effort at sea with work concentrated on shore which could be carried on independently of the weather.