The purse-seine fishery is the largest in terms of landed volumes, netting an average of 350 000 tonnes each year.
Large nets with floats at the surface and weighted rings at the bottom are dropped like a curtain in a circle around a
school of sardine or anchovy and then drawn closed from the bottom, much like a purse, to enclose the fish.
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