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Aboard the FWS GERONIMO, research vessel of the Tropical Atlantic BiologicalLaboratory at Virginia Key, Florida. Fishermen are landing a 60-lb yellowfintuna using a three-pole, on-line rig with barbless hook. This was during theGERONIMO's third cruise devoted to surveys of the distribution of surface tunaschools in the area. (Image credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection)