commercial fishing

Table of Contents

Introduction
History of commercial fishing
Fishery equipment and facilities
- Gear
  - Hand tools
  - Lines
  - Traps
  - Nets
    - Bag nets
    - Dragged nets
    - Seines
    - Drive-in and lift nets
    - Gill and entangling nets
  - Machines
- Vessels
  - Trawlers
    - Side trawlers
    - Stern trawlers
    - Beam or outrigger trawlers
    - Wet-fish trawlers
    - Freezer trawlers
    - Factory or processing trawlers
  - Seiners
    - Purse seiners
    - Seine-netters
  - Dredgers
  - Lift-netters
  - Gill-netters
  - Potters
  - Liners
    - Handliners
    - Longliners
    - Pole-and-line vessels
    - Trollers
  - Multipurpose fishing boats
  - Artisanal fishing boats
  - Mother ships
  - Support and ancillary vessels
  - Freshwater fishing boats
- Harbours and port markets
Types of fishery
- Salt water
  - The oceans
  - Objects of sea fishery
    - Fishes
    - Shellfish
    - Mammals
    - Seaweeds and plankton
  - Fish finding
  - Sea-fishing methods
    - Pole-and-line fishing
    - Drifting longlines
    - Bottom longlines
    - Traps
    - Dragged gear
    - Seine nets
    - Purse seines and lamparas
    - Lift nets
    - Gill nets and drift nets
    - Entangling nets
    - Harvesting machines
- Fresh water
  - General characteristics
  - Methods

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