Fishing Gear - Overview Relates & expands on manual (V1.0) section 1.4.1

Objectives Explain the difference between passive & active fishing gear List 2 passive fishing gear categories List 3 active fishing gear categories

Gear groupings Passive / Active International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishing Gear – 60 different gears FAO groups into 11 main categories Brief description now – more detail later Surrounding nets Gillnets and entangling nets Seine nets Traps Trawl nets Hooks and lines Dredges Grappling and wounding gears Lift nets Harvesting machines Falling gears

Surrounding nets Active gear Purse seines Lampara

Seine nets Active gear beach seines and Boat, Scottish/Danish seines) Might be good to talk about the origin of the word seine b/c it’s a little confusing to use seine w/ surrrounding gear & then seine net here Beach seine - http://www.amcs.org.au/WhatWeDo.asp?active_page_id=453

Trawl nets Active gear Bottom: Beam, Otter and Pair trawls Midwater trawls: Otter and Pair trawls Pelagic trawl: http://research.usm.maine.edu/gulfofmaine-census/education/research-technology/nets

Dredges Active gear http://www.liv.ac.uk/researchintelligence/issue6/testing.html Bottom dredge: Commercial Fisheries News Volume 32 Number 12 July 2005

Lift nets Active gear Photo: Balaram Mahalder

Falling gears Falling gears (including cast nets) Cast net: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_fisherman_casting_a_net.jpg by Euku

Gillnet & other entangling nets Passive gear Gillnets and entangling nets (including set and drifting gillnets; trammel nets) http://www.museum.state.il.us Trammel net: http://www.museum.state.il.us/RiverWeb/harvesting/archives/images/index.html?RollID=roll9&FrameID=trammeldiagram_200 http://www.fishingnets.com/gillnet.htm

Traps / Pots Passive gear Traps - pound nets & ‘cages” http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/fisheries/nets Traps / Pots Passive gear Traps - pound nets & ‘cages”

Hooks and lines Passive & active Handlines, Pole and lines Set or drifting longlines Trolling lines Handline: http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_gear.aspx Trolling: http://www.profish.com/fishing_gear.php LEFT 2: http://www.nfrdi.re.kr/bbs?id=en2_mimetic&flag=lis Pole & line & jig: http://www.nfrdi.re.kr/bbs?id=en2_mimetic&flag=lis Trolling: http://www.profish.com/fishing_gear.php

Grappling and wounding gears Active Grappling and wounding gears (including harpoons, spears, arrows, etc.) http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_gear.aspx Peru spear fisher - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spear_fishing_Peru.jpg

Summary List 2 passive fishing gear categories List 3 active fishing gear categories

References FAO. © 2005-2009. Topics Fact Sheets. Fishing gears and methods. Topics Fact Sheets. Text by Wilfred Thiele and Joel Prado. In: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department [online]. Rome. Updated 27 May 2005. [Cited 18 August 2009]. http://www.fao.org/fishery/topic/1617/en Nedelec, C., and J. Prado. 1990. Definition and classification of fishing gear categories. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper, No. 222, Rev. 1. Watson, R., C. Revenga, and Y. Kura. 2006. Fishing gear associated with global marine catches I. Database development. Fish. Res. 79:97-102.

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