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This article may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling. You can assist by editing it. (April 2010) Mario Puratić (usually spelt Puretic, and sometimes Puretich, in English) is a Croatian-born American inventor who made major advances in fishing technology. The Puretic power block is named after him. Puratić was born in 1917 in the town of Sumartin on the island of Brač in a Croatian family of farmers and fishermen.[1] In 1938 he left his home in search of a better life in USA. To facilitate extraction of the net from the sea, which at that time was the most demanding part of the hunt, he invented the fishing equipment of the incredible[peacock term] ease of use, which changed the way the hunt with fishing nets around the world. This invention was in the fishing equivalent of the invention of electricity. Thanks to him Peru had increased fishing pelagic fish to 300 percent. Within a few months during 1953 in San Pedro[disambiguation needed] he has created a product that was, by 1954, usually known in English as the Puretic power block. Prototype has proven to be excellent. Job which once needed 8 to 10 people could now equally quickly be done with only 5 or 6 people, but still no one was interested in the product. In 1955 the company Marco from Seattle, specialized in sea building and design, recognized the potential of his invention and its engineers produced a product for practical use called Power Block. It has a form of evening pulley with aluminum skeleton and the central rotating element, often wrapped in hard rubber, which can work. Quality of the product was very quickly recognized and up to 1960 most vessels in the northern seine fleet had installed the power block. It made possible the renaissance of the moribund United States distant water tuna fleet, an event that put the United States into the forefront of that world-girdling fishery and has kept it there, helped by the adoption of synthetic fibers for netting. Puretic power block revolutionized the fishing industry in such a way that FAO stated that no single invention has contributed more to the success of purse seine net hauling than extensive line of Power Blocks.[2] In 1972 Canada issued a five dollar bill with a salmon seiner on the reverse.[3] In 1975 Mario Puratić was proclaimed the inventor of the year in the United States and also one among Americas most famous 100 inventors of the 20th century.[4] References ^ "King of Purse Seine Fishing". http://www.croatians.com/seine.htm. Retrieved 20 March 2009.  ^ "Power block". http://www.fao.org/fishery/equipment/powerblock. Retrieved 20 March 2009.  ^ "Mario Puratić" (in Croatian). http://hakave.org/index.php?Itemid=206&id=1933&option=com_content&task=view. Retrieved 20 March 2009.  ^ Žubrinić, Darko. "History of Croatian Science". http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/et22.html#puretic. Retrieved 20 March 2009.  Persondata Name Puratic, Mario Alternative names Short description Date of birth Place of birth Date of death Place of death