Abstract
THE Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is about to build a specially designed Diesel-engined steel vessel for an extensive study of fish life in the ocean waters around Australia. Since the loss of the trawler Endeavour in 1914, with Dannevig on board and, presumably, the greater part of his records also, no systematic investigation of Australian fishing grounds has been carried on. The new vessel cannot be used for trawling, being designed mainly for the catching of surface swimming or pelagic fish by purse seine (and ring) nets; but it will be able to do a certain amount of work on demersal fish by means of Danish seine nets. The principal fish to which attention will be given at first are pilchards, Australian salmon, garfish, barracouta, members of the mackerel family including tunny, and other edible species. The length of the vessel will be 82 ft. and its beam 19 ft. Its extreme draught will be 8 ft. 4 in., and its displacement 108-5 tons. It will be capable of a speed of nine knots.
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