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

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

3. 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

4. Surrounding nets Active gear Purse seines Lampara

5. 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 -

6. Trawl nets Active gear Bottom: Beam, Otter and Pair trawls
Midwater trawls: Otter and Pair trawls
Pelagic trawl:

7. Dredges
Active gear
Bottom dredge: Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 32 Number 12
July 2005

8. Lift nets Active gear Photo: Balaram Mahalder

9. Falling gears Falling gears (including cast nets)
Cast net: by Euku

10. Gillnet & other entangling nets
Passive gear
Gillnets and entangling nets (including set and drifting gillnets; trammel nets)
Trammel net:

11. Traps / Pots Passive gear Traps - pound nets & ‘cages”
Traps / Pots
Passive gear
Traps - pound nets & ‘cages”

12. Hooks and lines Passive & active Handlines, Pole and lines
Set or drifting longlines
Trolling lines
Handline:
Trolling:
LEFT 2:
Pole & line & jig:
Trolling:

13. Grappling and wounding gears
Active
Grappling and wounding gears (including harpoons, spears, arrows, etc.)
Peru spear fisher -

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

15. References
FAO. ©  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 [Cited 18 August 2009].
Nedelec, C., and J. Prado Definition and classification of fishing gear categories. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper, No. 222, Rev. 1.
Watson, R., C. Revenga, and Y. Kura Fishing gear associated with global marine catches I. Database development. Fish. Res. 79: