. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. A FISHING PLATFORM MAY SOME DAY REPLACE TODAY'S GEAR The commercial fisherman is still the hunter of the seas. Despite modern techno- logy, he fishes much the same way his pre- cursors fished--with nets, traps, lines, or similar types of gear. The NMFS Exploratory Fishing and Gear Research Base in Pascagoula, Miss., is try- ing to change this ancient approach to fishing. It is developing an automatic fishing platform that may be in operation in 1971. The large latent potential of the Gulf of Mexico is one reason for the development of the p
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. A FISHING PLATFORM MAY SOME DAY REPLACE TODAY'S GEAR The commercial fisherman is still the hunter of the seas. Despite modern techno- logy, he fishes much the same way his pre- cursors fished--with nets, traps, lines, or similar types of gear. The NMFS Exploratory Fishing and Gear Research Base in Pascagoula, Miss., is try- ing to change this ancient approach to fishing. It is developing an automatic fishing platform that may be in operation in 1971. The large latent potential of the Gulf of Mexico is one reason for the development of the platform. The Fishing Platform The purpose of the fishing platform is to attract small, loosely schooled fish with sub- merged rafts and to guide the fish with special lightingto a central point. There they can be concentrated with an electrical field and. An aulomalie fishincj and processing platform thai attracts fish with lighls--and uses electricity to concentrate Ihem at ihe intake of a pump--is being developed at NMFS Exploratory Fishing and Gear Research Base, Pascagoula, Miss. The fish can be processed auto- matically aboard the platform for human or animal food. L8. 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. [Washington] : National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt. Print. Off. ]
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