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2. Gillnetting - Wikipedia

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   The net is set on the bottom, or at a distance above it and held in place with anchors or weights on both ends. By adjusting the design these nets can fish in surface layers, in mid water or at the bottom, targeting pelagic, demersal or benthic species. On small boats gillnets are handled by hand. Larger boats use hydraulic net haulers or net ...

3. Lift net - Wikipedia

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   The nets can be flat or shaped like a bag, a rectangle, a pyramid, or a cone. Lift nets can be hand-operated, boat-operated, or shore-operated. They typically use bait or a light-source as a fish-attractor. [1] Lift nets are also sometimes called "dip nets", though that term applies more accurately to hand nets. [2]

4. Puretic power block - Wikipedia

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   The Puretic power block is a special kind of mechanised winch used to haul nets on fishing vessels. The power block is a large pulley of aluminium with a hard rubber-coated sheave . While many men were needed for the back-breaking work of hauling a purse seine manually, the same work could be done by fewer men with a power block.

5. Midwater trawling - Wikipedia

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   In midwater trawling, a cone-shaped net can be towed behind a single boat and spread by trawl doors, or it can be towed behind two boats (pair trawling) which act as the spreading device. Midwater trawling catches pelagic fish such as anchovies , shrimp , tuna and mackerel , whereas bottom trawling targets both bottom living fish ( groundfish ...

6. Drift netting - Wikipedia

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   Drift netting is a fishing technique where nets, called drift nets, hang vertically in the water column without being anchored to the bottom. The nets are kept vertical in the water by floats attached to a rope along the top of the net and weights attached to another rope along the bottom of the net. [ 1 ]

7. Basnig - Wikipedia

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   Then the rest of the net will be pulled up by the crew at the right side of the boat until the catch are visible. The piloto will then instruct the crew of two who will manually operate a huge fish net to get the fish into the boat. Then a net will be deployed in the middle part of the boat to temporarily put the live fish for separation.