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The Magnet sincerely thanks, and wishes to acknowledge, the long hours that the Eden Killer Whale Museum volunteers put into cataloguing and digitising the Magnet collection so they can be accessed more readily by everyone, not just by us.
October 22, 1987: Pictured are divers Dennis Watson and Mike Harper at the abalone chiller in Snug Cove, Eden.
June 30, 1988: Fisherman unknown. Do you know who he is?
June 30, 1988: Some nice gemfish from Neil Thompson’s (right) catch on Monday.
June 24, 1982: Some of the big catch of gemfish being unloaded on the long weekend. Fishermen say the bulk of the gemfish schools are now moved further up the coast away from Eden.
June 23, 1983: Norm Love, owner skipper of the Twofold Bay, operating the winch during the unloading of the big gemfish catch.
Tuna poling, unknown date
Photographer unknown
Eden Killer Whale Museum Collection
'Captain Henry Johnston shows how to get tuna on the Timoshenko off Eden. Capt Johnston is with Eden Canneries Pty Ltd, in an executive capacity.’
Reproduced in Fisheries Newsletter, Dec 1949
Eden Killer Whale Museum Collection
L-R: Thomas Donahue (child), Russell Donahue, Eddie Barbaric, Ivan Barbaric, Peter (Mozzie) Stevens
Photographer unknown
Eden Killer Whale Museum Collection
Fishing vessel at Cannery Wharf, c1950-60s
Photographer unknown
Eden Killer Whale Museum Collection
Postcard of Jack Warren, Mr Earngey (chemist) and Eden Cole with trumpeter caught off Eden, 1937
Eden Killer Whale Museum Collection.
Photographer unknown
Eden Killer Whale Museum Collection
December 28, 1989: Minister for Primary Industries John Kerrin releases the Government’s fisheries statement, “New Directions for Commonwealth in the 1990s".
June 30, 1988: This 40kg plus Harpoka or New Zealand groper was just part of a large catch landed by Eden trawler, Naiomi B, on a drop-line at the Canyons Recently. Eden fisherman, Bob Elliot, is pictured displaying the huge fish.
June 30, 1988: The Federal Minister for Primary Industries, John Kerrin has rejected claims that his government was mismanaging the gemfish industry.
December 28, 1989: Minister for Primary Industries John Kerrin releases the Government’s fisheries statement, “New Directions for Commonwealth in the 1990s".
June 24, 1982: Some of the big catch of gemfish being unloaded on the long weekend. Fishermen say the bulk of the gemfish schools are now moved further up the coast away from Eden.
June 23, 1983: Norm Love, owner skipper of the Twofold Bay, operating the winch during the unloading of the big gemfish catch.
Trawler (Twofold Bay) with gemfish. Deckhands: Stephen Hartly and Mark Love.
