Creatures
of the
deep

By J. C. GRAHAM

CP Correspondent
AUCKLAND, N.Z. (CP) —

_ Scientists ‘are exchanging
theories about the catching of
an allegedly prehistoric

- .ereature off the coast of New '

Zealand.

Some of the greatest ocean
depths) lie in trenches near
_New Zealand and even limited
selentific efforts to plumb
these depths have produced
gome strange finds.

Greatly increased com-
mercial fishing of waters off
the. New Zealand ‘coast in,
recent ‘years,. mainly by
Japa craft, have also
brough reports of the.
sighting. of grotesque sea
monsters, .

Recently—a Japanese tra

wler fishing in deep waters,
hauled in a huge decomposing.
mass of flesh. The material
was unpleasant and smelly,
but thecrew thought it unlike

anything that had been caught »

before.

_ Accordingly, - photographs:
were taken ‘before the.
creature. was~ thrown. back

into the sea.

Exathination of the photo-
‘graphs by a Yokahama
_ University professor brought

a claim that the creature was
probably .a plesiosaur, a
species that lived more than
70 million years ago and was
thought to be extinct.
CLAIM CHALLENGED

- The claim has been chal-
lenged by other scientists. In
Australia a fisheries expert
declared that the Japanese
had caught a decomposing
whale or shark, which had

been attacked by other fish.

. What appeared to be fins or
flippers: was simply sheets of
fen torn’ loose in the atta-
c

A - Scottish 2oologist
produced a rival theory that,
the creature was a Hooker's
sea lion. He saids.plesiosaurs:
could not. liv ig cold deep
waters such as those where -

the remains were foun- -

Japanese universities are
not convinced, however, that
_the find was something so
mundane. Tokyo University .
- has asked the trawler to make,
a new search in the area and
_ try torecover the monster for -
further-study, '

Two of. Japan's leading
newspapers, . Yomiuri
Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun,
have sent: reporters to New
Zealand on a monster quest.

They are trying to arrange
. helicopter trips ‘to find the
trawler, which is-still fishing
somewhere off the west coast
of. New. Zealand.

. Meanwhile New Zealand
Herald, - ‘in ‘an editorial,
suggests” that there is-
something: ‘fishy about the.
whole affair. The Japanese, it

pointy out, are negotiating for

~ fishing rights in New Zealand- -
waters.» following the

declaration of a 2¢0-mile
the

‘economic: zone of E.

af ng.
ready: -made ~ ‘new - tourist .
- atttaction in séa monsters in .
return :for ‘fishing rights. A!
‘sort af ‘squid pro quo. 9

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