| Photographer: | Magogman [View profile] | Title: | Lancaster | Added: | Jun 16, 2007 | | Captured: | | IMO: | 8836144 | Hits: | 1,478 | | Photo Category: |
Purse seiners and pelagic trawlers | | Description: | The Lancaster is a menhaden fishing boat built in 1944 and is 168.8 feet long. It carries two smaller boats which are launched when a school of menhaden are located and the two smaller craft will encircle the school of menhaden with a purse seine. When that process is completed the Lancaster will move in and use a suction pump and the large pipe that can be seen in this port side view to pump the fish by the hundreds of thousands onto the ship. When its holds are full the ship will head for Reedsville, Virginia to unload the menhaden at the Omega Protein's processing plant where the menhaden are reduced to oil (used in the manufacture of Omega 3 pills which many use as a source of "good" cholesterol), food for pets and livestock, and also used for the manufacture of cosmetics and other items.
Menhaden are the prinicpal fish caught along the Atlantic and Gulf coast of the United States and in tonnage caught exceed that of all other fish caught in the US on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. |
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