Longline fishing
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Longline fishing, or longlining, is a commercial fishing angling technique that uses a long main line with baited hooks attached at intervals via short branch lines called snoods or gangions. A snood
Longlining for mackerel
Longline radiobuoys
Seabirds with longline fishing vessel
Preparing lines for longlining
Sablefish
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The sablefish is one of two members of the fish family Anoplopomatidae and the only species in the genus Anoplopoma. In English, common names for it include sable, butterfish, black cod, blue cod, blu
Longline fishing
…death of many different marine species known as bycatch. Longliners – fishing vessels rigged for longlining – commonly target swordfish, tuna, halibut, sablefish and many other species. In some unstable fisheries, such as the Patagonian toothfish, fishermen may be limited to as few as 25 hooks per line. In…
Sablefish 01
Resting on soft sediment of a 800 m deep canyon floor.
Resting on soft sediment 302 m (991 ft) deep
Small sablefish caught in a bottom trawl survey off the coast of California