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Purse seine nets are now larger and can be hauled by power blocks installed inaluminum purse seine boats

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Purse seine nets are now larger and can be hauled by power blocks installed inaluminum purse seine boats. Fewer crewmen are needed to compactthe school, after which the fish are pumped aboard the carrier vessel.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 6 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Photographer

Artwork by Bob Hines

Collection

Historic Fisheries

NOAA Affiliation

BCF