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A tracing made by an echo sounder shows concentrations of Pacific ocean perchon the sea floor, as well as the otter trawl of another vessel sweeping over the bottom toward the fish

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Description

A tracing made by an echo sounder shows concentrations of Pacific ocean perchon the sea floor, as well as the otter trawl of another vessel sweeping over the bottom toward the fish.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 420 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Location

Eastern Pacific Ocean

Collection

Historic Fisheries