Figure 6. — Trawlers in port - Valparaiso, Chile. 



As there are no full-time shrimp fishermen in Chile, there are 

 no boats dedicated exclusively to shrimp fishing. Some trawlers are used 

 exclusively for hake, others fish for hake and occasionally langostino, 

 and less frequently a try will be made for shrinp. In 195U there were Ii2 

 trawlers operating in Chile; all but one operated along the central coast 

 between Valparaiso and Talcahuano. When hake are abundant the fishing for 

 langostino and shrimp becomes very sporadic and depends upon market demand. 



The nets used for shrimp and langostino are similar in design 

 to the hake trawl except that the meshes are smaller. The trawl is the 

 typical VD type with about 260-foot leads between the net and the doors. 

 The meshes are 2 inches (stretched) throughout the net. The wings are of 

 18-thread single mesh and the bag of U2-thread double mesh. 



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