Legendary Purse Seiners. The Karibib Story

Nearly 40 years ago, South Africa was at the forefront developing a combination purse seiner/mid-water trawler called the Karibib. Locally built, the Karibib was the first combination purse seiner/mid-water trawler to be operational anywhere in the world. Given the fact that the 2013 pelagic season was the poorest since the late 1950’s due to unfavourable sea temperatures, which prevented pelagic fish to concentrate in shallower waters, the purse seiners were unable to reach the pelagic fish with conventional purse seine nets. When you read this article about the Karibib, you might ask yourself whether “this idea perhaps wasn’t the way forward?”