Trawling for Cod, Pentland Firth 1963 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Trawling for Cod, Pentland Firth 1963 / In Memoriam: PhillipC
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| 説明 | This is a case where levelling the horizon would detract from the photographic recordIn this method of fishing one end of the net is put into the sea and is marked by the floating buoy seen here. Then the trawler lets out the net while travelling in a large circle. the net itself is like a giant string bag. In this shot the net is beginning to be deployed and the long coil of rope will be let out. followded by the net. Once the trawler has completed the circle it will return to this buoy and then have both ends of the net. It will then drag the net at a speed that allows it to travel at the depth the shoals of cod swim at. It is a matter of judgment when the net is actually winched in with its catch, but a typical drag took about an hour. Given that the deployment of the net also took about an hour it meant that a full seine netting cycle typically took 2 to 2.5 hours. Once the catch was aboard the crew would sort it and box it while the skipper searched for another promising place to deploy the net. In those days the aim was to bring in 3 heavily loaded nets during a 10 to 12 hour day, but sometimes it was necessary to run 4 or 5 cycles to make a reasonable day's catch, and this could mean up to 18 or 20 hours. Already in the 1960s getting a good catch was becoming more difficult and the time/catch size squeeze progressively worsened over the next 20 years until the cod fishery became virtually uneconomic. |
| 撮影日 | 2005-03-19 21:15:40 |
| 撮影者 | In Memoriam: PhillipC , Wellington, New Zealand |
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