With the advent of the increased territorial limit of Australian wa­ters to 200 miles, Jack Helmore believes that the boats of 30’—40’ will be swallowed up by larger syndicate-owned ships of 70’—100’. These ships will fish the deeper water and stay out for weeks at a time.

Jack says the Aussie fishermen will need government help to tool up to the larger scale fishing and if they don’t help them the Japanese, Yugoslavs and Russians will walk in, perhaps that should be wade in, and utilize another Australian resource. All nationalities have to eat, says Jack, and if we don’t use our fish someone else will.