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Many fish cannot be harvested with present-day gear because the species arescattered over wide areas

Description

Many fish cannot be harvested with present-day gear because the species arescattered over wide areas. Experiments with pelagic fish show that it may bepossible to attract large numbers of fish at night to a series of buoys or rafts with pulsating lights. Then the pulsations would move the fish to a suctionhose attached to a factory processing vessel.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 509 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Photographer

Artwork by Bob Hines

Display Date

1969 circa

Collection

Historic Fisheries

NOAA Affiliation

BCF