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The gear aboard this Hawaiian longliner is used to take bigeye and yellowfintunas and marlins and other billfishes from subsurface waters

Description

The gear aboard this Hawaiian longliner is used to take bigeye and yellowfintunas and marlins and other billfishes from subsurface waters. Baited hooksare suspended at intervals along the buoyed longline, which may be ten miles inlength. Flags indicate the position of the longline in the water.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 286 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Display Date

1969 circa

Location

Hawaii, Oahu Island, Honolulu

Collection

Historic Fisheries