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Purse seines lead in quantity of fish landed by U.S. fishermen. The purse line,when drawn to the vessel, effectively prevents the fish from escaping under thenet. Purse seines are used to catch schooling fish like tuna, menhaden, andsalmon. Tuna purse seines (one is shown) are of enormous size, and may be 3/4mile long, 200 ft. deep, weight 15 tons, and have 10,000 floats.
Credit
NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 113 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume
Photographer
Artwork by Bob Hines
Display Date
1969 circa
Collection
Historic Fisheries
NOAA Affiliation
BCF