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Article: S.D. still home port for tuna industry. (San Diego, California)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- January 31, 1994
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The boats and the canneries are gone, but the industry is not.
For decades, tuna boats crowded San Diego's waterfront. First came the pole fishing, or bait boats, then the long-liners, then the big purse seiners with their huge nets.
Canneries stood on San Diego's wharves, and area shipyards built and overhauled the regal tuna clippers.
But those visible elements of an industry that has played such an integral role in San Diego's colorful history have vanished, and may never return. Most of the boats are now fishing the far waters of the western Pacific. Shipyards in New Zealand and Singapore have captured most of the maintenance work. Similarly, most ...