CRAWFISH INDUSTRY TRISTAN DA CUNHA

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CRAWFISH INDUSTRY TRISTAN DA CUNHA

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Jun 09, 2017 9:33 pm

The Crawfish, Crayfish or Tristan Rock Lobster (Jasus tristani) is found in abundance around the Tristan islands and has been exploited commercially since the first canning factory was built above the former Big Beach in 1949 before being destroyed by the 1961 volcanic eruption. A new factory, incorporating freezing technology, was built after the islanders returned in 1963 and has been the mainstay of the island's economy.
The Tristan island crawfishing season starts on 1st July, with 2 teams of 18 fishermen using 9 large power boats on alternate days when weather permits. Each boat contains two fishermen (the stamp shows four men) who drop traps with imported bait to the sea floor with brightly coloured buoys bobbing on the surface to be raised twice a day by a winch, hopefully containing crawfish or octopus which are a by-product landed and processed in the factory. There is a catch limit quota, for the Tristan-based powerboats and around the outlying islands of Nightingale, Inaccessible and Gough by the fishing ships. In recent years this limit has been achieved by Christmas with no commercial fishing in until the following August. The factory starts work processing early as two boats ferry catches during the day prior to boats finally coming home with the remainder of the catch by 4pm.

Tristan da Cunha 1970 4d/2’6 sg133/36, scott?
http://www.tristandc.com/economyfishing.php
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