KAITI

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Built as a steel hulled stern-trawler by A & G Price Ltd., Auckland for the J Wattie Canneries.
14 December 1966 launched under the name KAITI.
Tonnage 75grt, with a length of 70ft.
Powered by a Ruston-Paxman diesel engine, 340 bhp.
Based at Gisborn, New Zealand.

Mostly she was operating between Mahai Peninsula and Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty.
At that time the company had seven fishing vessels, which were used in trawling of purse-seining.
2008 Her whereabouts not known by my.

SG870

Source: New Zealand Marine News 1967 page 124

[D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen]

Pennant number GS 97

https://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/issue ... y-d52.html

https://m.sunlive.co.nz/news/36608-fami ... d-95k.html

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This design depicts, in the left panel, a fishing trawler and in the right a mass of fish on the vessel's deck.  The fishing industry had its origins early in New Zealand history with the whaling industry.  In 1844 whale oil and other products fetched £50,000 on the London markets. Following European settlement and the population increase, the fishing industry first provided for only local consumption but later developed into the significant export industry it is today.  Trawling is one of the principal methods used.  Fitted with freezers, trawlers usually make weekly trips at a time.

Source: New Zealand Post