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  • Demersal Trawl - General

    A demersal trawl is a cone shaped net that is towed on the seabed to target demersal fish species.
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  • Beam Trawl - Shrimp beam trawl

    The shrimp beam trawl is used to target brown shrimp and is often used in shallow water.
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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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  • Hand lines

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

    This is a basic rod and line fishery using barbless hooks and live bait.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Multi Rig Trawl - Nephrops triple rig

    In this rig three trawls are towed side by side using four trawl warps.
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  • 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.
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  • Bag net

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