Mother ship with canoes. Gillnetting and shortlining.

(For explanation of this trip, read next blog down) These boats go out for about 2 weeks and gill net and also use hooks. They have two large styrofoam lined wooden ice boxes for a hold above deck and clean the fish and ice them until they deliver. They cook and sleep onboard in hammocks, about 4 guys or a family and some crew. The hieght of the river changes a lot over the seasons of rainey and dry and the fish they target changes as many large predatory catfish and others migrate through thier area to spawn up in the headwaters. Some come as far as 4,000 kilometers from the estuary and mouth of the Amazon.