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Fishers baiting gear on the F/V Grantduring
the early 1900s. The Grant carried 24 fishermen and 12
dories (8 2400' skates with a 9' hook spacing/dory). During the
summer, usually 2 sets of 4 skates were fished per dory per day over a
relatively short period of 3 days to maintain fish freshness. It was
claimed that never less than 150,000 lbs per trip were delivered. |
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Heward Bell prior to becoming an IPHC Director, ca. 1927 |
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Computer systems manager Bernard Vienneau out on a research
charter |
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Calvin Blood ageing fish by counting annual rings on
otoliths |
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Cleaning fish |
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Former director Donald McCaughran out on charter, F/V
Kristiana ca. 1995 |
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Dorothy Camp appears to be measuring annual growth of an otolith |
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Crewman posing in the dory of the vessel New England,
1925 |
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Biologists cutting otoliths and measuring fork lengths from
the commercial catch, Prince Rupert, B.C. |
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Collecting more market sample otoliths |
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IPHC biologist Euell Hodge demonstrates how cold the ocean
air can be by standing a halibut that has frozen on deck. |
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Halibut stacked like cord wood in the freezer of San Juan
Fisheries Cold Storage, ca. 1929 |
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Tracee Geernaert records hook by hook species data using a
handheld computer. |
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Gregg Williams onboard the IPHC survey charter vessel
Elizabeth F. This image was also used for the cover of IPHC
Technical Report 40. |
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A plant worker prepares to head about 1500 pounds of halibut
using a machete. While many plants have started using hydraulic
guillotines, this heading technique is still used in a few ports today. |
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Former Homer port sampler and sea sampler Linda Holbeck
covered in her work. |
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Joan Forsberg poses with a large halibut. Even
considering that she's hunched slightly behind the fish, 5'10" Joan
is still dwarfed by this "soaker". |
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Lauri Sadorus samples a fish on the charter vessel Cape
Flattery, ca. 1992 |
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Mike Larsen measures a fork length on the Ocean Viking, June 1991. |
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All the equipment needed to recover a tag from a halibut.
If you've caught a tagged fish and are wondering what to do, click here. |
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Coils of fixed-hook gear stored in tubs |
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Dan Randolph aboard the survey charter vessel Angela Lynn,
1998 |
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Stephen Kaimmer uses a hook timer to see how long it takes
to catch a fish |
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Sampling a juvenile halibut caught in a trawl experiment,
ca. 1960 |
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Morris Wade holds a fish with a "prior hook
injury". The Commission fully endorses careful release
techniques, such as hook-straightening and gangion-cutting, to minimize
damage to discarded fish. |
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Heather Gilroy port sampling during one of the pre-IVQ/IFQ
openings. |
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An illustration (self-portrait?) mailed in with a fisher's
logbook information. |
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Kelly Van Wormer fishing the Adak/Attu survey regions on the
F/V Trident, 1999. |
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A very rare image of computer programmer Afshin Taheri at
sea, F/V Kristiana |
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Executive Director Bruce Leaman conducts a preliminary Passive
Integrated Transponder tag test in Manchester, WA, 2001. |
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Data Transcribers Aregash Tesfatsion and Laura Mitchell on
their first port sampling trip. Bellingham, WA, 2001 |
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Survey Manager Claude Dykstra has a late night on the
charter vessel Star Wars II, 2001. |
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U.S. Port Sampler supervisor Lara Hutton experiences life in
a Canadian port.
Ladner, B.C., 2001. |
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Renee Rensmeyer port samples in Sitka, 2001 |
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Port Sampler Lynn Mattes in Juneau, 2001 |
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Petersburg's Port Sampler Levy Boitor eagerly awaits
his next fish, 2002 |
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Sampler Darlene Haugan holds up an otolith, Prince
Rupert 2002 |
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Port Sampler Bill Donaldson is shown the ropes by Lara Hutton, Kodiak
2002 |
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Neophyte Maria Ruud holds up an Area 4 fish, Adak 2002 |