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Description
Closing the purse seine. This picture of early tuna purse seining operationsillustrates that often dolphins and other marine mammals were caught as abyproduct of tuna fishing. Today, efforts are made to minimize the harm tomarine mammal species during tuna purse seining operations.
Display Date
1966 August
Location
Tropical Pacific Ocean
Collection
Fisheries
Keywords
Fisheries
Commercial Fishing
Technique Purse Seine