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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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  • Pots and Traps - Cuttlefish

    Cuttlefish traps are usually larger than most other traps but of lightweight construction.
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  • Pots and Traps - Velvet Crab

    Traps or creels, used for velvet crab are similar to those used for lobster.
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  • Pots and Traps - General

    Pots and traps are generally rigid structures into which fish or shellfish are guided through funnels that make entry easy but escape difficult.
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  • Pots and Traps - Lobster

    The D shaped creel with two entrances is the favoured trap by many lobster fishermen.
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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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  • PS - Purse Seine

    A purse seine is a large net used to surround a shoal of pelagic fish.
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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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  • Twin Rig Trawl - Sole twin rig

    A method used by smaller vessels to target Dover sole which involves towing two small trawl side by side.
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  • Twin Rig Trawl - Nephrops

    A method of towing two otter trawls side by side to target nephrops
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  • Twin Rig Trawl - Mixed species twin rig

    Fishing method using two trawls side by side to target a mix of bottom living species and demersal round fish
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  • Trolling

    Fishing method where boat tows a line or lines with hooks and natural bait or an artificial lure to target fish in upper layers of the water column
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