ABOARD THE NORTHERN HAWK, Bering Sea — Some 400 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor, Bering Sea pollock congregated in spectacular fashion.
In the wheelhouse of this factory trawler, Captain Jim Egaas scanned a sonar displaying a dense red band that represented millions of fish in a school stretching for miles.
He could see the pollock up close on another screen that relayed images from an undersea camera stitched in the mesh of a quarter-mile-long net. The video feed showed swarms of them deep in the funnel-shaped trap.
