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2. Gillnetting - Wikipedia

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   Oil painting of gillnetting, The salmon fisher, by Eilif Peterssen National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration illustration of a gillnet Gillnetting is a fishing method that uses gillnets: vertical panels of netting that hang from a line with regularly spaced floaters that hold the line on the surface of the water.

3. Fishing net - Wikipedia

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   A fishing net is a net used for fishing. Some fishing nets are also called fish traps, for example fyke nets. ... It is usually a gill or tangle net, and is commonly ...

4. Fishing industry in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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   The method of fishing depends on the type and size of the fish to be caught. Trawling is used to catch shrimp, carite, snapper and cavali. The main catches from seine and gill nets are king fish, shark and carite. Fish pot catches are red snappers and jacks. Fishing is a year-round activity in the Caribbean and it directly employs thousands of ...

5. Fishing techniques - Wikipedia

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   Seine nets - are large fishing nets that can be arranged in different ways. In purse seining fishing the net hangs vertically in the water by attaching weights along the bottom edge and floats along the top. Danish seining is a method which has some similarities with trawling. A simple and commonly used fishing technique is beach seining, where ...

6. Tangle net - Wikipedia

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   Diagram of a tangle net shown upright for viewing. When used by fishermen in the Philippines it is positioned on the sea bottom against a near-vertical underwater cliff wall (drop-off zone). Similar to a gillnet , the tangle net , or tooth net , is a type of nylon fishing net .

7. Drift netting - Wikipedia

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   Drift nets generally rely on the entanglement properties of loosely affixed netting. Folds of loose netting, much like a window drapery, snag on a fish's tail and fins and wrap the fish up in loose netting as it struggles to escape. However, the nets can also function as gill nets if fish are captured when their gills get stuck in the net. The ...