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This is typical of the many purse seiners up to 300 feet long which use Majuro as a base.
They find schools of tuna with their helicopter, then capture an entire school at once with an enormous net.
After about a week they are full with many tons of frozen fish, and return to Majuro.
Here they transfer their catch to a much larger "mother ship" and take on more fuel and supplies.
The "mother ships" stay in Majuro, and each one takes care of several purse seiners.
When a "mother ship" is full of fish and empty of supplies, it goes back to its home base
and is replaced by another, while the purse seiners continue catching fish.
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