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Before about 1946,
the crow’s nest — a
structure in the top
part of the vessel’s main
mast — was used to
spot menhaden schools.
When a school was
spotted, a dinghy would
be deployed with one
man aboard to pinpoint
the best position for the
net. The purse boats
would then encircle the
school with their seine
net and gradually draw
the catch alongside the
mother ship.
After about 1946,
airplanes routinely
were used to locate the
fish, and the practice
of directing the seine
around a school of
menhaden took place
from the air usually by
VHF radio commu-nication
between the
pilot and the captain.
An average purse-seine
catch in 1960 using
spotter aircraft might
yield about 10 tons of
menhaden.
The life of a menha-den
spotter pilot was
anything but ordinary.
Taking off from tiny,
remote airstrips along
the coast, the pilots flew
into constantly chang-ing
weather patterns.
The typical eight-hour
day could be clear and
bright or mixed with
fog, rain, or the sudden
rush of storm winds that
could blow in within
minutes.
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