Show I 1 r i RUSSIA OPENS FARTHEST NORTH FISHING BANKS ARCHANGEL Russia Sept 11 B By A. A r P D Soviet Russia Russa has made strenuous efforts this this' summer summer summer sum sum- mer to develop her sea fisheries as asI asa asit po it a so source source rc of food supply and in this connection conn It II was announced re recently recently re- re I new fishing grounds have been discovered off in arctic waters adjacent to Russia Rus Rus- sia sla The new fishing g banks were located quite by accident It was tas during a cruise of the steamship steamship Malygin of 1500 tons with Russian sea scientists aboard 1 who were doing research work forthe for tor forthe I Ithe the purpose of stud studying ing matters I pertaining to the biological hydrographical hydrographical hydro hydro- graphical and meteorological n problems lems of ot the polar regions that great schools of ot fish were encountered Further Investigations in the same same- waters off oU ki revealed reveal reveal- ed that the fish made their homes there in great numbers This is 15 said to be the most northerly fishing fishing fish fish- ing banks In the world There are Indications not omy onry on the Archangel el coast coasto but in northern Norway as well that the Russian int interests rests are going in deep sea fishing on a a. much larger scale than at an any time since the revolution n. n Formerly the Russian trade was was a main feature of sue such Norwegian towns as Y Vardo rdo and Hammerfest As far back as the fifteenth century the fished and traded alon along the Norwegian coast Gradually in the eighteenth century the fishing passed into Norwegian hands the Russians confining their attention to the purchase and ad shipping of or the I catches In the five years ears ending I in 1912 more than tons were thus I purchased much of ot this going to England England- With the w war war r and the revolution this trade vanished but 01 fishing fishing fish fish- now flow Russia has begun to buy which to ing ing craft in Norway with catch her own fish thus bringing ing the Rusi Russian Rus Rus- about a great reat saving for tor sian slap people |