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  • Beam Trawl - Open gear

    The beam trawl - open gear is designed to stimulate the fish out of the mud and over the footrope of the trawl.
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  • Pots and Trap - Nephrops

    Nephrops creels or prawn creels as they are generally called, are of the basic D creel design but lighter than that of a lobster or crab pot.
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  • Pelagic Trawl

    In this fishing method, the trawl is towed in mid-water by a vessel and is designed to catch pelagic fish.
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  • Pots and Traps - Whelks

    Plastic drums with a netting entrance set on the seabed for targeting whelks.
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  • Small Line

    A fishing method is similar to longline fishing but adapted to suit the smaller inshore vessels.
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  • Twin Rig Trawl - Mixed species twin rig

    A fishing method using two trawls side by side to target a mix of bottom living species and demersal round fish.
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  • PS - Purse Seine

    A purse seine is a large net used to surround a shoal of pelagic fish.
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  • Tangle Nets

    A gill net design where the netting is hung onto the ropes to create a greater amount of slack netting.
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  • Wreck Nets

    Wreck nets are types of gill or trammel nets that have been rigged to shoot over wrecks or areas of hard ground on the seabed.
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  • Gill Nets

    A gill net is a single wall of netting anchored on the seabed to catch fish that swim into it.
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  • Demersal Trawl - Rockhopper trawl

    The rockhopper, or hopper trawl, is a  trawl that is towed on the seabed, with the mouth held open by a pair of otter boards (trawl doors).
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  • SDN - Anchor Seine

    A net shot in the open sea using very long ropes to lay out the net and ropes on the seabed prior to hauling from a boat at anchor.
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