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  • Hand lines

    Fishing using a rod or hand held lines as a commercial venture in a similar manner to recreation angling. 
  • Pole and Line

    This is a basic rod and line fishery using barbless hooks and live bait.
  • Pots and Traps - Velvet Crab

    Traps or creels, used for velvet crab are similar to those used for lobster.
  • Fish Standard for Crew

    A voluntary, independent and accredited third-party certification programme for labour practices on fishing vessels.
  • Headline Height

    A trawl or static net where the gear has been redesigned to keep the headline (top of the net) low to prevent the capture of high swimming species.
  • Trammel Nets

    Fishing nets similar to a gill net but are made up of three layers of netting.
  • Escape Gaps

    Escape gaps are usually flat pieces of rigid plastic with a rectangular hole in that is fitted into pots and traps to release small shellfish
  • Gill Nets

    A gill net is a single wall of netting anchored on the seabed to catch fish that swim into it.
  • 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.
  • Trolling

    Trolling is a method of fishing where the boat tows a line or lines with one or more hooks with a natural bait or an artificial lure.
  • Tangle Nets

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

    A bag net is an environmental method of targeting fish that are close inshore.