. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 17, No. 12. the next basket (fig. 6). Hook-dropper coils are made up smaller than mainline coils and are secured by hooking the tuna hook into the rubber chafing gear on the wire leader. The floatline is coiled down on top of the pile, the skid is then tied up, and the gear is ready for setting. SETTING The gear is laid in a straight line and in a direction relative to the wind and sea which will make it easy to haul the line. Haiiling is easiest when the wind blows from about 30 off the bow on the side of t
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 17, No. 12. the next basket (fig. 6). Hook-dropper coils are made up smaller than mainline coils and are secured by hooking the tuna hook into the rubber chafing gear on the wire leader. The floatline is coiled down on top of the pile, the skid is then tied up, and the gear is ready for setting. SETTING The gear is laid in a straight line and in a direction relative to the wind and sea which will make it easy to haul the line. Haiiling is easiest when the wind blows from about 30 off the bow on the side of the line hauler. Therefore, gear is usu- ally laid with the wind about 30° off the stern opposite from the line hauler. When course is reversed to pick up the gear, if no wind shift has occurred, the winch side will be the weather side and wind and sea will be broad on the bow. When setting close to islands or banks, or in an area where currents are known to be strong, the direction of set must be chosen with care. Setting across a current bound- ary is avoided as the mainline is apt to part with the strain. Particular care must be taken in setting in shoal water close to land where strong surface currents may sweep the gear into shallow water before it can be recovered. Fig. 3 - Details of attachment of float to flagpole. Setting is usually done from a setting table" on the stern of the vessel. This is a wooden bench large enough to hold sev- eral skates of gear and the bait needed for the set. In setting (1) the vessel is put on the desired course; (2) floatline, buoy, and flagpole (usually with double flag) are joined to the first basket and pitched overboard; (3) one fisherman pays out coils of mainline while others uncoil droppers and bait hooks. The amount of slack in the mainline, and consequently the fishing depth of the gear, is controlled by the fisherman throwing out the mainline coils. These may be thrown out rapidly to give a "slack set" which fishes
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