On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:09:12 +0000, Gordon wrote:

That's not a longline. Those are forty to fifty miles long. Generally
700 lb mono. Looks like weed whacker string. You see the movie
Perfect Storm? The lady who was captain of Brown's other boat, the
Hannah Boden, wrote a book that describes longlining for swordfish in
detail.


I don't know about swordfishing but the regs control the number of
sets on a longline for the fishing I described. The lines are seldom
over a mile long.
Gordon

That isn't really long, but I don't know what else you could call it.
You say they use wire. The weight would be an advantage. The idea is
to suspend the main line deeper than boxboat screws, a problem in the
Atlantic. Undoubtedly less of a problem in the fishery you refer to.

Casady