Gísli Pálsson and E.Paul Durrenberger discuss how a fishing skipper must not only locate his vessel in an environment that often has no reliable visual clues, but attempt  to capture prey which is invisible and moves in a different medium. The tactics of fishing - the day-to-day activities of locating gear and timing trips have received relatively little attention and there are major problems with most accounts of shipper behavious and fishing tactics. It is argued that that information available to skippers and knowledge and theories they have developed can often lead them to several different conclusions. Therefore they follow hunches and other processes of decision making.

Finding fish: the tactics of Icelandic skippers
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