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  2. Drift netting - Wikipedia

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    Drift netting. 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]

  3. Fishing net - Wikipedia

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    Fishing nets have been used widely in the past, including by stone age societies. The oldest known fishing net is the net of Antrea, found with other fishing equipment in the Karelian town of Antrea, Finland, in 1913. The net was made from willow, and dates back to 8300 BC. [1]

  4. Gillnetting - Wikipedia

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    A fishing vessel rigged to fish by gillnetting is a gillnetter. ... one dolphin is caught for every 1.7–4.0 tonnes of tuna landed.

  5. Mattanza - Wikipedia

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    Mattanza in Sicily, an etching La pêche du thon ("Tuna Fishing", 1782) by Jean-Pierre Houël. The practice of mattanza is an elaborate and age-old fishing technique for trapping and catching Atlantic bluefin tuna that can be traced back to the Phoenicians.

  6. Blast fishing - Wikipedia

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    Blast fishing, fish bombing, dynamite fishing or grenade fishing is a destructive fishing practice using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection. This often illegal practice is extremely destructive to the surrounding ecosystem , as the explosion often destroys the underlying habitat (such as coral reefs ) that supports ...

  7. A hoax? What we know now about fisherman's Raritan Bay ... - AOL

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    Here's where New Jersey big tuna are normally found - and it's not in Raritan Bay. It would have been a historic catch because catching a bluefin tuna in that area would be rare, if it's ever ...

  8. Tuna - Wikipedia

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    A tuna (pl.: tunas or tuna) is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae family.The Thunnini comprise 15 species across five genera, [2] the sizes of which vary greatly, ranging from the bullet tuna (max length: 50 cm or 1.6 ft, weight: 1.8 kg or 4 lb) up to the Atlantic bluefin tuna (max length: 4.6 m or 15 ft, weight: 684 kg or 1,508 lb), which ...

  9. We Asked Dietitians to Rank 10 Popular Canned Tunas and You ...

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    Safe Catch Elite Wild Tuna. Safe Catch. This canned tuna has 210mg of sodium and 0 grams of fat per serving putting it towards the middle of the list. Not only does it contain high-quality protein ...