. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. I UNC Sea Grant •• io/4> V orth Caroii April 1983 Doc COAST 4 WATCH Illustration by Neil Caudle. Gadgets that changed fishing forever Today's captain may spend more time peering into video screens and printouts than he does peering into water. Fishermen today won't leave the dock without their solid-state circuits, their transducers, their computer chips. They listen for fish with electronic ears. They sail to sea and home again on the pulse of a radio wave. The value of North Carolina's seafood catch h
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. I UNC Sea Grant •• io/4> V orth Caroii April 1983 Doc COAST 4 WATCH Illustration by Neil Caudle. Gadgets that changed fishing forever Today's captain may spend more time peering into video screens and printouts than he does peering into water. Fishermen today won't leave the dock without their solid-state circuits, their transducers, their computer chips. They listen for fish with electronic ears. They sail to sea and home again on the pulse of a radio wave. The value of North Carolina's seafood catch has doubled in the past five years, to a single-year record of $60 million for the dockside value. Many fishermen will tell you they would never have landed that much seafood without the new generation of electronics. Others will argue that new gear has made our fleet so efficient, so adept at raking in the catch, that we're fishing ourselves out of business. The new gear is so easy to use, they say, that new fisher- men can jump into business and be com- petitive more quickly than ever before. "It (electronic gear) probably does have some ef- fect, because it increases efficiency," says Mike Street, of the N. C. Division of Marine Fisheries. "Whether that is a significant factor in putting pressure on stocks, I don't ; And, it's not only the commercial fleet that's laying out hard cash at the electronics store. Sportsfishermen by the thousands are wiring their boats and compar- ing wattages. This month, Coastwatch looks at marine electronics—who needs them, how they work, and what we did before we had 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 UNC Sea Grant College Program. [Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program]
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