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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
Midwater trawls
Tucker trawl
Pelagic paired trawl
Single boat demersal trawl
Beach or bag seine encircles fish
Seines often used for prey fishes or young sport fishes
Gizzard Shad
Largemouth Bass and Bluegill
Minnows and shiners
Purse seine encircles fish in open water
Purse seine being set and purse line pulled
Purse seine is a complicated gear; often justified for open-water species (e.g., shad)
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.
On a Commercial Scale
Pole Fishing for Tuna
Scallop Dredging
Longline and Drift Nets
•baited
•miles long
•disadvantages