FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture - Fishing Technique

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Fishing Techniques

Ray Gillnets and Trammel Nets Fishing

Main Components

Aquatic species

Target Species
Rajidae (Skates, Rays)

Gear types: Gillnets and entangling nets

Gillnets and entangling nets

Gillnets and entangling nets are strings of single, double or triple netting walls, vertical, near by the surface, in midwater on on the bottom, in which fish will gill, entangle or enmesh.

Vessel types: Gillnetters

Gill netter

Gillnets can be operated from boats and canoes on inland waters and inshore, decked small vessels in coastal waters and from medium sized vessels fishing offshore.

Characteristics

Species EnvironmentBenthic rays occurring in all oceans, from Arctic to Antarctic waters and from shallow coastal shelfs to abyssal regions; rare in tropical shallow waters or near coral reefs; some species enter brackish waters. Feed on other benthic organisms.



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