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A Norwegian fisherman caught a US submarine in his nets this week. The USS Virginia's propellers got tangled in the nets, reports say, dragging them out to sea.
For bait, the fishermen used yellowfin tuna, wahoo, cobia, and mahi-mahi. Their bait successfully attracted the local catfish, allowing the men to catch several monster blue catfish in the 30- to ...
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A Japanese glass fishing float. Glass floats were used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.. Large groups of fishnets strung together, sometimes 50 miles (80 km) long, were set adrift in the ocean and supported near the surface by hollow glass balls or cylinders containing air to give them buoyancy.
Buoys can be used as temporary markers, called dans, during Danish seine fishing to mark the anchor position of a net, or when fishing with lobster pots to mark the position of the pots. Bycatch – bycatch is the harvest of marine life and seabirds during fishing operations when other fish were the target. For example, bycatch might consist of ...
Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the seafloor. It is also referred to as "dragging". The scientific community divides bottom trawling into benthic trawling and demersal trawling. Benthic trawling is towing a net at the very bottom of the ocean and demersal trawling is towing a net just above the benthic ...
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Similar to a gillnet, the tangle net, or tooth net, is a type of nylon fishing net. Left in the water for no more than two days, and allowing bycatch to be released alive, this net is considered to be less harmful that other nets. The tangle net is used in the Philippines by commercial fishermen, as well as by the scientific community. When ...