No longer is there a huge fleet of small family-owned boats. Instead, there are large, capital-intensive boats, with large nets pulled in by automatic winches, not hand over fist. During that time, fishers adapted various military technologies to hunting on the high seas. Radar allowed boats to navigate in solid fog, and sonar made it possible to detected schools of fish deep under the oceans' opaque blanket. Ships can now receive satellite weather maps of water-temperature fronts, indicating where fish will be traveling.
Some vessels work in conjunction with aircraft used to spot fish.
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