A research vessel is experimenting with an instrumented buoy system for transmitting data to fishermen on the location, kinds, and abundance of fish schools. Attached to the buoy are chemical receptors that detect chemical residues given off by the fish and detectors that register electromagnetic changes on sensing equipment.

Image ID: fish7946, NOAA's Historic Fisheries Collection
Photo Date: 1969 circa
Photographer: Artwork by Bob Hines, BCF
Credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 418 of "Our Changing Fisheries" 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

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