Zeevisserij in Nieuw-Guinea
Sea fishing in New Guinea
Objectcode
FI/1200/8
Film on fishing with trawlers off the coast of New Guinea. Fishing nets are used in which very large fish may end up, which must then be put overboard again with much effort. After that fishing is done with lines that catch only the large and very large fish. The intention is that with Dutch help fishermen learn more efficient fishing. (See content description)
Contents
24.26 Text: RAD-229 Rijksarchiefdienst 25.02 Image: Cutter moored to wooden pier. Plate with inscription Afdeling Zeevisserij Station (Department of Sea Fisheries Station) - Hollandia. The ship off the shore, the ship’s name De Goede Hoop on the bow of the ship 25.20 The ship sets out and sails the bay 25.33 Dutch and Papua crewmen prepare a chicken 25.46 Fishnet filled with fish opened on the deck, but not all fish fall out because a large tuna-like fish remains stuck in the net. Crewman attacks fishes with ax, fish stretched out on deck. Large white fish is hoisted up with joined forces and put overboard 26.32 Crewmember lifts the saw of a sawfish onto a board and hackes it off with an ax and then the fish is hoisted up, slips from the noose, is hoisted up once more and with great effort is put overboard 27.12 Skipper and assistant repair a net, detail of the mending. Assistant and Papuan help repair a net that is immediately cast overboard followed by the floats and the white board with the main float 27.56 Paying out winch cable. Attaching shackle and bolt to the big board that is hoisted overboard backwards, also a board on the starboard bow. Engine tracker controls winch. Foaming water caused by screw, the portside board which is briefly being dragged underwater 28.23 Caught fish on deck. Caught lobsters. Crew sort the catch, crewman cuts some open and throws the fish entrails overboard after which the fish are rinsed with water hose 29.01 cable clamp knocked loose with hammer. Skipper operates the winch. The net comes up and is unloaded hanging over the deck so that the fish fall out, then the oversized fish is thrown back into the sea and the net is cast overboard once more 29.43 a stingray, fish is sorted by the crew and thrown into baskets. Insulating hatch of cooling hold is removed and the baskets are loaded into the hold 30.11 The packed net is emptied on the deck again, after which the fish is rinsed. A large ray is attached to the hoist and hoisted. Close-up of eye and mouth of the ray which is dumped over the bulwark. Sorting out the catch 30.49 Papua and crewman make a hook. Detailed picture of the double hook above which downy feathers are attached. Cargo boom payed out sideways 31.25 Crewmember throws hook overboard and pays out the line under the cargo boom. The bridge with the helmsman and skipper setting engine telegraph and adjusting the sonar 31.50 Hauling in a line on the stern, with a fish lifted on the deck after which the Papuan removes the hook from its mouth. Hauling in lines with caught fish, which are then thrown on deck to have hooks removed 32.40 Crewman fixes the hook and throws the line overboard backwards. Big caught fish on the deck. Papua prepares a hook with live bait and down feathers, hauls in the line and lifts the fish on the deck, where the animal violently thrashes before and during the removal of the hook so that the mouth must be cut open 33.39 Skipper rings bell, a fish hauled in 33.59 Crew pose one by one with big fish caught with lines. Crew hauls in line on which a shark in the water turns and winds, crewman shoots the shark with a rifle, shark is then hoisted on deck where attempts are made to remove the hook 35.05 Ship's cook prepares the food in the galley, crewmen at the table. Close up of the captain eating chicken. Hauling in lines on the stern 35.35 The bridge with the helmsman and skipper setting the sonar equipment. The graph on which the schools of fish are visible, skipper looks in the viewfinder of the detection device. The vague image in the viewfinder, close-up of the helmsman. Papuan gives a tug on the line and then lifts a large fish on deck with his hook 36.36 The trawler sets sail for the bay, filmed from different setups. Papuans on the bow 37.20 End (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl)
Year
1957
Technical detail
Black and white
Silent
References
Links
http://www.beeldengeluid.nl