In longline fishing, very long lines are strung with many baited hooks and drawn through the water. Malcolm Harrison, an Auckland longline fisherman, talks about landing snapper and gurnard in the late 1950s.
Transcript
Usually on the Saturday and we would unload the fish into the trailers or bring the boat round, depending on the weather, about half past five Sunday morning and we would be here by six o'clock. Anything between oh 50 to 60 people waiting there. This is mainly because we were bringing in top quality fresh fish, we gilled and gutted our fish as we caught them. This was snapper mainly, snapper and gurnard actually. So they were getting a good quality product that they couldn't really buy in the fish shops. Mainly because back in those days the standard of looking after fish and handling fish was very very poor.
Interviewer: So we're talking about the early sixties, are we?
Yeah, well it's the late 50s
Interviewer: Late 50s.
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Image: Seafood New Zealand, Paul Morris
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