CAPE MAY – July 25, 2010 – The Retriever, a baby blue, rust-stained trawler, was docked outside a Cape May fishery last week while its catch — 200,000 pounds of slippery, white squid — was emptied from the hull.
After three days on the water, the 145-foot-long boat had pulled into Lund’s Fisheries in the middle of the night, creating a morning-long bustle.
A pressurized tank sucked the catch from the Retriever through a tangle of wide hoses. Mixed with refrigerated sea water, the squid rushed through 800 feet of pipe toward a pair of conveyor belts set up inside the company’s processing plant.
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