Active Capture Gear Human or mechanical action moves gear to fish Dragged or towed gears – Trawls...

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Active Capture Gear Human or mechanical action moves gear to fish Dragged or towed gears Trawls Dredges Surrounding or encircling nets Seines Angling

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Active Capture Gear

• Human or mechanical action moves gear to fish• Dragged or towed gears

– Trawls– Dredges

• Surrounding or encircling nets– Seines

• Angling

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Midwater trawls

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Tucker trawl

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Pelagic paired trawl

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Single boat demersal trawl

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Beach or bag seine encircles fish

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Seines often used for prey fishes or young sport fishes

Gizzard Shad

Largemouth Bass and Bluegill

Minnows and shiners

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Purse seine encircles fish in open water

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Purse seine being set and purse line pulled

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Purse seine is a complicated gear; often justified for open-water species (e.g., shad)

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Angling as a sampling tool

- Active? Probably.- A valid ampling technique, but with biases- Valid use in mark-recapture studies- No matter what, you’ll catch some grief: your parents always knew you were going into this profession so you could get paid to hunt or fish.

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On a Commercial Scale

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Pole Fishing for Tuna

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Scallop Dredging

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Longline and Drift Nets

•baited

•miles long

•disadvantages

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