Another small catch

(C) Greenpeace

Went out to document another purse seiner at work this morning. Each crew we've watched so far has it's own way of doing things. This one worked very quickly to bring in their net. To our surprise, when it was almost at the stage where they scoop the fish out, one of the fishermen jumped down into the net. I guess (hope) they could see there weren't any sharks in there. Anyway, first the one guy, and then another, jumped in to tie ropes to parts of the net so they could use their derricks to pull it into position for scooping.

There wasn't a whole lot of fish to there. I'd guess one full scoop net worth, with very little tuna in there. Not much to show for a hard morning's work. On the way back to the Rainbow Warrior, I realized we've seen a lot of purse seiners, visually and on radar. But we haven't seen a single one bring in a good catch yet.

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