Twenty two a day is a small number easy to comprehend

On calm winter days like this, cod fishing out of Menemsha on Marthas Vineyard, I would set 18 tubs of gear!

18 is a smaller number than 22 and very easy to comprehend but each and every tub held one skein of trawl line, 1800 feet or 300 fathoms with hanging by snoods at every fathom of the trawl lined 1 baited circle hook. Once the F/V LAURA shot those 18 skeins into the water we had 5400 hooks in the water stretching out 5400 fathoms more than three quarters of a nautical mile (1 NM=6000 feet) a statue (land Mile) mile is 5280 I think? A number most of you cannot comprehend.

22 a day slightly larger than 18?

Those 18 tubs of gear killed three to five thousand pounds and cod every time they were set from the deck of F/V LAURA

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