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  • Bag net

    A bag net is an environmental method of targeting fish that are close inshore.
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  • SSC - Scottish Seine

    In the Scottish seine the gear is shot on the seabed in a rounded triangle shape with very long weighted ropes attached to each end of the net.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Demersal Trawl - Nephrops trawl

    A low demersal trawl towed on the seabed, with the mouth held open by a pair of otter boards (trawl doors) designed to target nephrops.
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  • Pair Seine

    In this fishing method a net similar to a demersal trawl is towed by two boats simultaneously.
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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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  • Trammel Nets

    Fishing nets similar to a gill net but are made up of three layers of netting.
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  • Semi-Pelagic Trawl

    A trawl towed on or very close to the seabed with the trawl doors swimming several metres off the seabed. 
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  • Stake Net

    A net with a long vertical wall of netting held up by a line of strong wooden poles erected upwards from the beach.
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