CostaRicaPages.com-- Cost Rica is known as one of the best sport and deep sea fishing
destinations in the world. The Northern Pacific region of the popular
tourist destination is known for six different types of popular trophy
winning game fish. Both marlin and sail fish can even be found year
round in the warm Pacific waters of the Northern region. Tourists and
local fishermen alike enjoy the satisfaction of hoisting a large
Rooster fish, Pink Marlin, or even a Yellow Finned Wahoo on board. It
is Costa Rica’s welcoming seas and abundance of rare fish that keep the
Los Sueños Marina busy with camera happy tourists and recreational
fishermen. Lately, however, in some of the most popular tourist fishing
locations, large seiner fishing ships have been spoiling the fun and
threatening recreational fishing all over the world. A seiner is a
special type of fishing boat that uses a seine, which is a large
fishing net that hangs vertically down into the water anchored by
weights along the bottom, to increase the daily catch. The nets are
usually long and flat and resemble a chain link fence. Seiners drive
around the fish in a circle in order to capture large amounts of fish
at a time draining the popular fishing areas of their natural
inhabitants. This method of fishing is popular amongst large commercial
ships that mass produce seafood products onboard. Although the method
proves to be rather successful in capturing large schools of fish in
less time, it is threatening the local fishing community as well as
Costa Rica’s bread winner; tourism.
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