In our shipping intelligence reference was recently made to the arrival from Melbourne of the fishing smack Redcliff; and to the fact of her having proceeded to sea with the object of trawling in the neighbourhood of Otago Heads, and of bringing to the Dunedin market, "all alive" the fish which might be caught.
Fishing by trawl-nets is, of itself, a new enterprise on the Coast of Otago and fishing with a welled smack is an equal novelty.
The undertaking was, therefore, doubly interesting, and its interest is multiplied by the fact that the first experiment has proved to be most successful.
The Redcliff returned to Port Chalmers from her voyage of exploration on Saturday morning with her well full of groper, ling, trumpeter, flounders, cray fish, skate, and the "real English sole."
Of the different descriptions of fish caught the sole fish were the most numerous, and their capture in such numbers is, perhaps, the most interesting result of this endeavor to establish a new local industry.
