Unloading swordfishSesimbra, Portugal, mid-1980s
photo © Louis Goldman/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Family ties, a common way of life, and risk and responsibility influence apportioning the rewards of fishing. In some areas, the entire community shares the catch; in others, the crew divides it.
Unloading swordfish
Sesimbra, Portugal, mid-1980s
photo © Louis Goldman/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Fishing, Bering Sea
Most fishermen around the world allot profits from the catch by
"shares." Owners may get as much as half; the crew divides the
rest. Skippers get two or three shares. The crew gets quarter,
half, or full shares, based on their experience.
photo © Mark J. Rauzon
Cleaning the catch (brown pelicans are interested, too)
Galapagos Islands
photo © C. J. Collins/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Annual harvest of awa (milk fish)
Christmas Island, Eastern Indian Ocean, 1982
photo © Mark J. Rauzon
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gene carl feldman (gene@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-9428 Judith Gradwohl, Smithsonian Institution (Curator/Ocean Planet)