HARPOONING METHOD

1. HARPOON
FISHING
METHOD

2. HARPOON
 is a long spear-like instrument
used in fishing, whaling, sealing,
and other marine hunting to catch
large fish or marine mammals
such as whales.

3.  It accomplishes this task by impaling
the target animal and securing it with
barb or toggling claws, allowing the
fishermen to use a rope or chain
attached to the butt of the projectile to
catch the animal.
 A harpoon can also be used as
a weapon.

4. HARPOONING
HARPOON

5. What do harpoons catch?
 Fishermen use harpoons to catch very
large fish, like swordfish or bluefin
tuna, at certain times of the year when
these fish are found swimming in
surface waters.

6. Accessory Equipment
 Harpoons differ from spears in that the
point becomes separated from the
shaft when it penetrates the victim and
the shaft floats to the surface. The
point and the shaft remaining
connected by a line.

7.  Whaling harpoons have a retrieving
line which runs from the shaft of the
harpoon to the operating vessel. The
line, with a total lengths of up to 1 000
m is running through a tension
absorber, from there it is led round the
drum of the whale winch then down to
the hold of the vessel .

8. Handling Equipment
 Modern harpoons can be pushed or
thrown by hand as well as they can be
shot with rifles or guns. Harpoons are
a very common fishing gear for sport
divers. Commercial fishing activities
with harpoons are of minor
importance.

9. Fish Operation
 When a prey is sighted, the vessel is
steered towards its position, and the
striker positions himself on the stand
with the harpoon made ready directing
the helmsman so that he can make his
strike and capture the target species.

10. BOHOL
SEA

11. Bohol Sea
 Also known as Mindanao Sea, section of the western
North Pacific Ocean.
 Measuring about 170 miles (270 km) east–west, it is
bounded by the islands of the Philippines—Mindanao
(south and east), Leyte, Bohol, and Cebu (north), and
Negros (west). It opens north to the Visayan Sea
through Bohol and Tañon straits and the Canigao
Channel, east to the Philippine Sea through the Surigao
Strait, and west to the Sulu Sea. The sea has rich
fishing grounds.