Shrimper refitted for dorado (OOPS squid)

Here's a refit that wreaks of a boat out for a specific fishery, dorado!
There is a pretty strong North wind to day so my take on this is it's a mother ship that came in for the day of calm water here in our bay and left their nets or long lines out while they relax awhile.
You can see the spool is empty.


In the back ground you can see the Santa Inex south light house



Pam (or any one)? Do you see this kind if set up around Loreto?

[Edited on 7-1-2011 by Russ]

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Originally posted by Russ Here's a refit that wreaks of a boat out for a specific fishery, dorado! There is a pretty strong North wind to day so my take on this is it's a mother ship that came in for the day of calm water here in our bay and left their nets or long lines out while they relax awhile. You can see the spool is empty. In the back ground you can see the Santa Inex south light house Pam (or any one)? Do you see this kind if set up around Loreto?

Thanks Jim ! I didn't even consider that when I saw it I was just mad as hell and not thinking. A trade mark of mine.

Yeah, the guys are mostly from Guaymas and as I understand the deal, they bought a bunch of the old Shrimp boats. They get a crew of very underpaid fishermen who work for very small salary and they live on the boat and fish for squid. That partly explains why they are so dirty as they get covered in slime and squid ink all night. They have big lights and get up to 12 or so guys pulling on the squid. The squid go on the main deck in plastic boxes and they fish most of the night. When morning comes, they work under the deck tarp and clean all the squid and the trimmed meat goes into the ice hold. The trim and all the junk gets washed overboard and into the ocean along with all their trash and cooking junk. That is why we found floating trash, eggshells, bottles, etc., in all the weedlines the last couple of weeks. You really do not want to get downwind of these boats. Also, it looks like all the sewage gets dumped overboard as well and with 12 to 20 per boat, that is pretty substantial.
The local pangueros go out around 5 in the afternoon. Most do not have an alternator on their boat so they take a car battery and hook it to a single bulb mounted in a half clorox bottle for light. They use a small sized jig right now because the squid are running fairly small. The jig has an oval shaped body which gets phosphorized by the light and has one to three sets of needle sharp hooks called a tiara on the bottom of the jig. The squid grab this jig and get hooked on the tiaras and then are pulled up with handlines (150 lb) to the boat and with one quick motion they are lifted out of the water and dehooked. Then they stack them up like firewood between the seats filling one section at a time. If they are going to clean them, they start with a clean section of the panga (relatively) and lay a dozen or so on a plywood board in the panga. They cut the tentacles off, pull out the beak, and these get chopped up to make fried squid chips in Asia. The Triangle shaped head is thrown overboard with the guts and lungs, and the body is stacked up. The fishermen wear plastic pants and a jacket as the whole process is messy and stinky. Most come back in anywhere from 12:30 to 4 with a pretty full load of squid, which is sold wholesale to the buyers and then it goes to Santa Rosalia to the processing plants and from there to Asia. Right now the prices are pretty good because there has been no squid for the last two years.

Thankx