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  2. Seine fishing - Wikipedia

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    The drum seine uses a horizontally mounted drum to haul and store the net instead of a power block. The net is pulled in over a roller, which spans the stern, and then passes through a spooling gear with upright rollers. The spooling gear is moved from side to side across the stern which allows the net to be guided and wound tightly on the drum ...

  3. Trawling - Wikipedia

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    The boats that are used for trawling are called trawlers or draggers. Trawlers vary in size from small open boats with as little as 30 hp (22 kW) engines to large factory trawlers with over 10,000 hp (7.5 MW). Trawling can be carried out by one trawler or by two trawlers fishing cooperatively (pair trawling). Trawling can be contrasted with ...

  4. Fishing vessel - Wikipedia

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    Seine netters - the basic types of seine netters are the anchor seiners and Scottish seiner in northern Europe and the Asian seiners in Asia. [40] Anchor seiners have the wheelhouse and accommodation aft and the working deck amidships, thus resembling side trawlers. The seine net is stored and shot from the stern, and they may carry a power block.

  5. Fishing trawler - Wikipedia

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    The Irish RSW Pelagic Trawler Brendelen SO709 [1] in Skagen harbour Fishing intensity extracted from Automatic Identification System data of EU trawlers greater than 15 metres in length, in the period October 2014 – September 2015 [2] (see Main Map for full resolution [3]) A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate ...

  6. Puretic power block - Wikipedia

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    The Puretic power block revolutionized the technology of hauling fishing nets, particularly purse seine nets. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) , "no single invention has contributed more to the success of purse seine net hauling" than the power block, which was "the linch-pin in the mechanization of ...

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  8. Midwater trawling - Wikipedia

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    1: trawl warp, 2: otter boards, 3: longline chains, 4 hunter, 5: weights 6: headline with floats, 7: pre-net, 8: tunnel and belly, 9: codend. Midwater trawling is trawling, or net fishing, at a depth that is higher in the water column than the bottom of the ocean.

  9. Outline of fishing - Wikipedia

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    Trawlers – A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. Seiners – Seine fishing is a method of fishing that employs a seine or dragnet. Drifters – Longliners – Longline fishing is a commercial fishing technique. [8] Factory ships –