Excerpt from Longline Fishing for Deep-Swimming Tunas in the Central Pacific, 1953 Skipjack were taken sporadically in small numbers throughout the entire area, usually not more than one or two at a station (appendix tables 6 to These catches can hardly be taken as more than an indi cation of the presence or absence of skipjack, for longlines do not sample this small, surface-schooling species effectively. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.