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MCS Practioners Introductory Guide To: Purse Seine Fishing

Abstract
An introductory guide to purse seine fishing vessels to support MCS officers undertaking purse seine vessel inspections. While this is a standalone tool focussed on purse seine fishing, it has been developed as part of series of similar introductory guides on other major industrial fishing methods and related operations, as well as complementary material on fishing vessel inspection considerations. This guide includes how to recognize purse seine vessels, how they operate and operational MCS considerations.
Author/s
Francisco Blaha
Duncan Copeland
Stig Fjellberg
Mark Young
Hugh Walton
Publisher/s
TMT
IMCS Network
Publication Year
2021