. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. October 1955 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 13. Fig 21 - At the completion of the hauling operation the catch is placed in a refrigerated brine well. Twenty-four hours later the frozen fish are transferred to dry cold storage. Fig. 22 - Successful fishing and strong currents usually re- sult in large amounts of twisted and fouled gear. It general- ly takes one or two hojrs to straighten out the gear after each set. Upper right: two airplane-tireinner tubes are used as additional floats in areas where large bluef in are know to be present. Bott
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. October 1955 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 13. Fig 21 - At the completion of the hauling operation the catch is placed in a refrigerated brine well. Twenty-four hours later the frozen fish are transferred to dry cold storage. Fig. 22 - Successful fishing and strong currents usually re- sult in large amounts of twisted and fouled gear. It general- ly takes one or two hojrs to straighten out the gear after each set. Upper right: two airplane-tireinner tubes are used as additional floats in areas where large bluef in are know to be present. Bottom: basketball-type floats are also beingtried. As yet no commercial boat has fished the Gulf with a full complement of long- line gear. Converted trawlers and snapper schooners have run up to 60 baskets (600 hooks), which is perhaps half the amount of gear an experienced crew could han- dle. Thus, while some trips are statistically encouraging from the numbers of yellow- fin caught per 100 hooks fish- ed, they have generally fail- ed to produce profitable trips. The largest catch to date was made in September piQRSBr L ""^ \_\â-Z^^^ V ^\ of last year when the M/V ^^3-aJâ^"^ \f\-.~/^-'^ ml SantoAntonio, fishing 120 miles south of the Mississip- piDelta, landed over 13 tons of yellowfin on a two-week trip while fishing less than M ' P B ^i '^fr'H!^ IWl 400 hooks per day. LB â LJ_y*4 ^ hWW ^W4 In late February 1955, a sudden decline in the yellow- fin tuna catch coincided with- in a week with the appearance of large bluefin tuna weigh- ing from 300 to more than 700 pounds each. At first an occasional bluefin was. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. National Marine Fisheries Service; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; United States. Bureau of Commericial Fisheries. [Wa
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