FS38 -12.09_Calculating the spread of trawl doors

Summary

This fact sheet gives fishermen the information to help them measure the spread of their trawl doors without the need for costly electronic equipment. If the vessel does not have a trawl monitoring system fitted, the fact sheet details two basic methods to calculate the spread of the trawl doors.

Authors

• M. Montgomerie,
• K.Green

Publication Reference No.

33945

Publication date

01/01/2010