Unloading frozen tuna

Unloading frozen tuna

Unloading frozen tuna

Chumming for tuna. Small fish, usually the nehu, a type of anchovy, are thrown in the water to bring the tunas near the ship.

Japanese fishermen identified by towel wrapped around their head (hachimaki). Here a group of Japanese fishermen are taking on a load of frozen tuna bait ( saury, Cololabis saira), preparatory for a fishing trip that could last as long as 40 days.

Unloading frozen tuna from fishing vessel on the cannery docks at Pago Pago.

Moving tuna from dock to processing facility

Unloading frozen tuna from fishing vessel

Forty-five tons of prime (50-pound average weight) bluefin tuna in "dried up" bag of purse seine off California.

Tuna in pre-cooking oven at StarKist tuna plant

The skipjack tuna vessel BUCCANEER pulls into Kewalo Basin. The vessel at the dock is a longliner.

Tuna seiner with escaping porpoise

Tuna seiner

Tuna swimming in closing purse seine

School of oceanic skipjack tuna

Skipjack tuna off Hawaii

A school of 400-500 pound bluefin tuna in the Atlantic

Tuna swimming in purse seine

Tuna swimming in purse seine

Tuna swimming in purse seine

Tuna swimming in purse seine

Tuna swimming in purse seine

Yellowfin tuna

A school of 400-500 pound bluefin tuna in the Atlantic

Tuna swimming in purse seine

Pacific Ocean Central

Women at work busily preparing tuna for canning

Large tuna on butchering line at Star Kist Tuna plant

Seiner easing up to the skiff and completing the circle around the fish. From "Purse Seine Revolution in Tuna Fishing" by Richard L. McNeely in Pacific Fisherman.

Tuna on deck

Tuna on deck during longline fishing off stern of research vessel

A bucket of tuna offloading

Yellowfin tuna being dumped into trough leading to weighing shed and cannery.

Stacking purse seine net on the tuna clipper "West Point"

Hauling the rings on a tuna purse seine

Live-bait fishing for skipjack off Kauai. Barefoot fishermen in traditional blue denim kimono use very long bamboo poles for small fish.

Chummer throwing live bait to attract skipjack aboard Hawaiian sampan BUCCANEER,

Hawaiian fishermen aboard the Hawaiian sampan BUCCANEER mend bait nets at sea while cruising on the fishing grounds. The fisherman in the foreground wears the straw hat and blue denim kimono traditional in the fishery.

Preparing to brail a tuna purse seine

Albacore tuna taken by trolling

Landing large tuna on BCF research vessel

Removing albacore tuna from a gillnet

Two-pole method of landing medium size tuna

Landing a yellowfin tuna aboard the BCF research vessel UNDAUNTED

Preparing to gaff large tuna for bringing on board.

2- to 3- day old larval kawakawa, Euthynnus affinis, which resulted from eggs taken from a female fish that was induced to attain spawning condition by hormone injections. The ripe eggs were fertilized with milt stripped from a ripe male.

Larval fish

Yellowfin tuna larvae ranging from 4.3 mm to 10.5 mm.

Yellowfin tuna larvae 5.5 mm in length

Yellowfin tuna larvae ranging from 4.3 mm to 10.5 mm.