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1918.] The N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology. 
1906. Germo alalunga Stead, Fishes of Australia, pp. 162 and 165 
(not of Gmelin), (Port Macquarie habitat). 
1907. Germo germo Stead, Additions to the Fish-fauna of New South 
Wales, No. 1, Dept, of Fisheries, N.S.W., pp. 20-21. 
1908. Thunnus (Germo) germo Stead, The Edible Fishes of New South 
Wales, &c., Dept, of Fisheries, N.S.W., p. 95. 
1913. Germo germon Waite, Rec. Cant. Mus., vol. 2, No. 1, p. 19. 
The only previous record of this species in New Zealand waters is that 
of Waite above referred to, which was based on a drawing in the Dominion 
Museum collection by Mr. G. H. Wilson, Survey Office, Gisborne, of a fish 
captured in the Turanganui Eiver, 13th April, 1885. The specimen here 
figured was obtained in Cook Strait in January, 1917, by the master of the 
s.s. “ Defender.” 
Waite follows Fowler in distinguishing the long-finned albacore of the 
Pacific from Germo alatunga (Gmelin) of the Atlantic, remarking that he 
is not in a position to offer any opinion on the subject. 
Fig. 3. —Germo germon. 
So far only one record of the specimen seems to have been made in 
Australia, but it appears to be an abundant fish in the tropical Pacific, 
according to the observations of Bennett. “ Ships when cruising slowly 
in the Pacific Ocean are usually attended by myriads of this fish for many 
successive months. A few days’ rapid, sailing is nevertheless sufficient 
to get rid of them, however numerous they may be, for they seldom pay 
more than very transient visits to vessels making a quick passage. When 
a ship is sailing with a fresh breeze they swim pertinaciously by her side 
and take the hook greedily, but should she be lying motionless or becalmed 
they go off to some distance in search of prey, and cannot be prevailed 
upon to take the most tempting bait the sailor can desire. . . . They 
are very voracious and miscellaneous feeders. Flying-fish, calmars, and 
small shoal-fish are their most natural food ; though they do not refuse 
the animal offal from a ship.” 
Stead states that as a food fish the species is of little value, its flesh 
being coarse and oily. 
Is a Sardine Industry practicable in New Zealand P 
By J. Allan Thomson, M.A., D.Sc., F.G.S., Director, Dominion Museum. 
The following remarks by C. Tate Began, the well-known British Museum 
authority on fish, deserve a wider circulation in New Zealand than they are 
likely to attain in the journal in which they appeared :■— 
“ A fact that may perhaps be emphasized is that the exotic species of 
Sardina resemble the European pilchard, not only in the structure of the 
