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| Gameboats alongside for the night off Cairns |
Over the last few months project historian Ray Joyce has travelled to Sydney and Cairns to conduct interviews. This has helped piece together the story of building gamefishing boats in Cairns, the first of the 'big' motherships - the ReefTel and SeaTel, and many personal accounts of time spent fishing the Cairns Marlin seasons. A thank you to the many crews who have provided their personal diaries, such as Bill Billson who provided 22 years worth of invaluable information. From these diaries not only is the History Project archive growing, but the Institute's Gamefish project is using the information to study the Great Barrier Reef marlin catch in comparison to climatics.
Pacific Marinelife Institute will release the first in a series of digital books in early 2011 on the fishing for marlin in Cairns. The first will cover 1954 - 1979, and each decade after that will be re accounted in a book. Three other books on the crew, boats and fish are also in production for release soon. These will be updated each year. The project is seeking information on marlin weighed aborad motherships duirng the Cairns Marlin seasons. If you have any information or photos that show weigh boards this can be of great assistance. Please contact or forward the information to the The Fishing Museum here.
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