Table 2. — Number of strikes and fish cauj^ht by 2-hour periods 



FIGURE 19 - BLUE SHARK UP TO 6 FEET IN LENGTH WERE TAKEN 

 IN MOST OF THE GILL-NET SETS (uP TO 57 PER SET ) AND 

 ALSO ON THE LONG-LINE GEAR. 



Gill-net catches 



The use of gill nets 

 for fishing albacore was ex- 

 perimented vdth in 1950, and 

 results were encouraging. As 

 far as is known, previously only 

 a few commercial fishermen from 

 the Pacific Northwest and the 

 Canadian Department of Fisheries 

 have tried fishing for albacore 

 with gill nets. In 1939, a 

 small number of Oregon and Wash- 

 ington fishermen are said to 

 have tried gill nets, but the 

 albacore reportedly swam right 

 through the nets (Anonymous 

 1940) , The Canadian Department 

 of Fisheries vessel Laurier in 

 1948 caught 4 albacore in an 

 8^-inch salmon net which was 

 35 meshes deep and 75 fathoms 

 in length (Partlo 1950). 



Thirteen gill-net sets 

 were made by the Cobb , which 

 caught a total of 251 albacore. 



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