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![The gear aboard this Hawaiian longliner is used to take bigeye and yellowfintunas and marlins and other billfishes from subsurface waters fish7928.jpg The gear aboard this Hawaiian longliner is used to take bigeye and yellowfintunas and marlins and other billfishes from subsurface waters](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/https/s3.amazonaws.com/s3-east-testmedia-noaa.woc.noaa.gov/dam/Photos/legacy/pl23_fish7928.jpg?itok=x80Ghh0f)
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The gear aboard this Hawaiian longliner is used to take bigeye and yellowfintunas and marlins and other billfishes from subsurface waters. Baited hooksare suspended at intervals along the buoyed longline, which may be ten miles inlength. Flags indicate the position of the longline in the water. (Image credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 286 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume)