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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.
  • Drift Nets

    This type of gill net is suspended in the water, usually just below the surface, but can be worked anywhere to target pelagic species.
  • Bag net

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

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

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

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

    A fyke net is a type of fish trap and are generally operated in shallow coastal waters, such as estuaries and sheltered bays.
  • Twin Rig Trawl - Nephrops

    A method of towing two otter trawls side by side to target nephrops.
  • Tangle Nets

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