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A research vessel is experimenting with an instrumented buoy system fortransmitting data to fishermen on the location, kinds, and abundance of fishschools

Description

A research vessel is experimenting with an instrumented buoy system fortransmitting data to fishermen on the location, kinds, and abundance of fishschools. Attached to the buoy are chemical receptors that detect chemicalresidues given off by the fish and detectors that register electromagneticchanges on sensing equipment.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 418 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Photographer

Artwork by Bob Hines

Display Date

1969 circa

Collection

Historic Fisheries

NOAA Affiliation

BCF