Show jag 11 PY fr evl 1 T Z d I 1 n r V 4 M a n A four hundred pound shark Fre prepared pared by national geographic Soc IotT washington D C service HARKS the much feared deal denizens zens S of 0 warm sens seas now are eagerly sought along the eastern coast of australia for they yield 20 I 1 commodities to ammer commerce e the cry shark sends the bathers at sidney scurrying to not fare far farnworth north at pindimar Pin dimar I 1 a sleepy vil vili I lage inge on the shores of pyrl stephens 1 which is the headquarters of p the grow ing in g shark fishing industry it Is good news founded several years ago the shark industry ln y of iii has At Jast reached the commercial stage like the i rabbit the snake the lizard the crocodile and the All alligator lator ohp hark has attained attal ned ali is st at us mainly through tha tb whims of of milady fashion bashion thel th world ver over she demanded something new in ill footwear and bags bag and she has skin i i several years ago a trading comi pany in england sent four experts out to australia to specialize in sharks shark catching and shark treatment they were the gt nucleus of marine industries ltd yie the australian allan offshoot oot of the english com company after investigation the quartette chose the scene of their opera eions alons it had hadadd and has the first essen bial sharks I 1 thousands of them all if kinds and varieties all sorts and sizes and all within a few miles of the shore the devil and the demon specially built motor boats were put into service staunch little craft they were proving with the heaviest of freights and in any weather the te clr first 8 t attack was launched at the entrance to the port a stretch of wa wai 1 i ter three quarters of a mile wide the nets were unlike in australia they were approximately 1000 feet long about 10 16 feet deep of an eight inch mesh and they were leaded and anchored to the tb e bottom with glass buoys buoy sto to hold them upright on the ilie surface marking 04 the anchors that helped secure the netto the bottom and at the same time holding it steady were large drums usually the nets are set in the afternoon and raised the next morn morning liag I 1 i no lack of sharks I 1 I 1 when the first net set was raised i the shark fishers discovered that for once at least the local fisherman had told the truth there were sharks there in abundance all sorts and sizes gray nurses whalers chalers wh alers tigers school sharks blue pointers ersa hammerheads hammer heads carpets b liongs begones be gongs shovel noses dummies gummies gum mies angels and port jacksons the shark fishers learned too that sharks were really stupid an eggcup egg cup would have covered the brain of the biggest shark an 18 footer I 1 this lack of intelligence Is demonstrated by the fact that shark runs into the mesh of the net once lonce be deeven even touches lt it ills his doom doomis Is more or less sealed though he may inny sense its dangerous es hi he will not ot retreat he presses ahead and as he does so those thin brown cords get tangled 1 more and more mor e securely around his gills then lie he is tiler there 0 to asta stay Y I 1 ith de 11 land the demon are each manned by a crew of two and a halt half men two very strong men and a lad ad pheob 9 nhe ob of raising the net the skipper is at th the tiller right up corrad forr Tor rad nd 0 one tie chap his legs braced against a little littie football foo trall hauls and a little farther along the deck taking th the strain Is the lad hand over hand they heave and pull until at last the man calls a halt nere here comes one he says and below a inaam mass cabbe can be seen tangled in the net thrashing arid and writhing then the skipper leaves eaves the tiller and I 1 lends ends his weight wel ailt it Is a mans job for even without the catch to increase its weight 1 a shark net when wet tips the beam at halt half a ton at la last st that part of ahe the net which holds the shark Is pulled to the surface then for daring speed of hand and sureness reness eu of foot there Is little to equal a tr fisher the fo forward had hand leans aver over and grasps the file tall of the struggling monster no matter what the sharks size weight and temper that tall must be hitched band and wh when elithe the short shark hnatik shipping green spas and a s savage ange IS footer I 1 Is venting ills his rage on the net with the forward hand he haing ing only onlin to tiny foot railto rall to give him since and f ali 1 afien ali en the ordina ordinary rj angler angier chui s garip to a 0 bailon of the dIrr prence between ish ing for sport for sharks him bui of the net nei the sharks hend Is tit angled in the net ills tall 6 aurely loosed while iha lh forward arvid I 1 bit lu n ats ti xang the hie noose LI I 1 he le out the derrick arm li inH loop to Is linked up f the he lad works the windlass and shark end mil holsted hoisted into the air a follows ws another ha hazardous za adous US opera I tion extricating the shark frorath fromi neti net the mesh Is isi I 1 wound round and anal round and fastened about hla his EHI rod and quite quire possibly too his ns and aaili tall are entangled with inflate te p pa J tience and ithai speed of long i eipert B ence the fishers pull the net clear pull it clear from razor edged i eth th I 1 tai ta 1 ar an d m madly ably squar ing body ait last the shark laclear of the net and hanging by baits its 3 in each shark boat isan outsize wu in baseball bi bata or at least what look bukea baseball ae ball ll 11 4 1 tonly itis ro uglier nod at very much heavier sherela The rela balso a revolver of large caliber WI bithon thon of these weapons weapons an anesthetic is 1 administered IV chii he captive I 1 JN herB er the bat every ounce of 0 the th wielders wl elders weighton weight on the nose of otien shark the nose being the shark iii equivalent odthe the hib liall ja jayor I 1 orthe the icv revolver diver does the joh fou an l other i way i 11 on the doc shark surgeon ll ig waiting walterl when he be dons his hia bleed stained e apron appoo bares a his muscular firm arms s and delicately tests testa the ithe kan keenness ot of his i big collection the great fish dishis Is headed beaded fors fora shark sharies equivalent of th the hereafter 1 parts that are utilized the salvaged portions of ashack ln order 0 value arette tire the hide the liver the ons fins and the stomach bag con COB arary toi prevailing opinion the teeth are valueless it Is generally belie bellei bied vei ed that sharks shar hs teeth pass as currence curren cT cv la many of the south sea islands albut although teeth ranging from the razor edged fangs of the the th ivory rry stilettos tos othe orthe gray nurse ur alve hv 1 i been I 1 hawked throughout the ils islands lands i they have have never found a market toi revert to the commercialization 1 first the shark no stunning i or near I killing illing this time next nest the or ctr basss cass s washed and the sur surgeon geow sets gets lj about cutting away the fins and begins skinning this Is a most delicate delicata delI cAtt job for one false cut and the value of odthe i the hide Is materially lessened lesse nedi what makes the cutting so difficult Is the thoroughness toughness of the hide it if Is 1 rough and thick and stubborn alveran liable piscatorial cobit coat of mall a each cut plays havoc with the skinning knife so much so that after six air i incisions bo hone ne or oilstone mast be b I 1 brought into play however in a few minu minutes tei thes the sharks barks clothes look loo kIlt like a cubist crossword cross word puzzle i 4 Is tug and pull until the hide ls Is oil oft after shark and hide have parted com company aej the lattaris lat latter teris as beamed ther flesh Is cleared away from the inner side beaming completed the hide is 1 closely inspected if any parts BT I 1 faulty they precut are cut away and agathen then lt it go goes boest est to ibe the shed for fir its first coat if ot 0 brine A wee week klater i later it is given anith I 1 er coat and two weeks later athard it Is then ready tor for the tanner the taper tanner as aua a matter ater of filets tact Is the ha man who ha shark fishing a feasible and profitable proposition until recent years although it hail had been been proved I 1 that sharkskin wal among the mo most at durable of leathers i it was not found possible to treat it t commercially with any great greaf degree of 0 success but naw new method de celii d it if as 6 now possible SQ W soften the toughest hide bide that it may be put to practically every purpose for which the best bullock leather feather 19 1 used it Is also possible now tol to esio tain not only the markings that oat m malia sharkskin so distinctive bu but t slaw also its lt remarkable qualities of durability at present the most articles artl cles manufactured from sharkskin sharks lila art arit footwear handbags cases anil and luggage the hide of the carpet sharli with its distinctively mottled Is used for exclusive feminine wear and pocketbooks oil from the th big liver once you have seen sharks liver you can understand why the sharl shark Is such a bad tempered bellof ellow be Is probably the liver cham champion plon 0 of f the world that Is in point of size seemingly he specializes inibig g livers lot ifor they put buthis his other organs to shame I 1 mars record la in this respect IS that of a 15 foot tiger who had a liver 13 feet long weighing pounds and other sharks are proportionately lf equipped this dreadful looking organ soon BOOB loses its entity or er Is laelia rho 1 I I 1 e al equivalent it Is dumped f into a b big 1 g contain erand cooked wat heat aeeti breaks lis down the oil cells and thorril the tho iril resulting product Is shark the nearest blood relation to cod liver OIL 11 II if i anything it smell worse but pasi tha ats medicinal cinal qualities are the same the i liver live r referred f d to 1 in its liquid medicinal at bbate ate yielded 1 I aided elded 1 y kallons gallons J A |