Fishing Methods

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Fishing Methods
1. Prawn trap 2. Diving 3. Bottom longline 4.
Beam trawl 5. Otter trawl 6. Midwater trawl 7.
Trolling
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Fishing Methods Pelagic Species
8. Purse seine 9. Gillnet 10. Pelagic
longline 11. Harpoon 12. Purse seine
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Fishing Methods Benthic Species
13. Otter trawl 14. Clam dredge 15. Scallop
dredge 16. Lobster pots 17. Bottom gillnet 18.
Bottom longline 19. Crab pots 20. Diving

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Longlining
NEFSC (shark)
NEFSC
Maria Honig, WWF Responsible Fisheries Programme/
Marine Photobank (swordfish)
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Hook and line
UNFAO Andrey Urcelaveta
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Trolling
NOAA
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Purse seining
Chilean purse seiner catching chub mackerel
NOAA Photo Library - C. Oritz Rojas
NEFSC
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Gillnetting
NEFSC
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Bottom trawling
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Traps and Pots
Red King Crab fishery based in Bristol Bay, Alaska
Valerie Craig/Marine Photobank
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SeaWeb/Marine Photobank
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Dredging
NEFSC/NOAA
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Ranking of Fishing Gear based on Habitat Impact
and Bycatch

• 1. Harpoon
• 2. Diving
• 3. Hook and line
• 4. Purse seine
• 5. Midwater gillnet
• 6. Pelagic longline
• 7. Pots and traps
• 8. Midwater trawl
• 9. Bottom longline
• 10. Dredge
• 11. Bottom gillnet
• 12. Bottom trawl

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Photo Credits

• How We Fish Matters Addressing the Ecological
  Impacts of Canadian Fishing Gear
• Susanna D. Fuller (Ecology Action Centre)
• Candace Picco (Living Oceans Society)
• Jennifer Ford (Ecology Action Centre)
• Chih-Fan Tsao (Marine Conservation Biology
  Institute)
• Lance E. Morgan (Marine Conservation Biology
  Institute)
• Dorthea Hangaard (Living Oceans Society)
• Ratana Chuenpagdee (Memorial University of
  Newfoundland)
• Marine Biology Conservation Institute
• Marine Photobank Maria Honig SeaWeb Valerie
  Craig
• NOAA, NEFSC, NOAA Photo Library - C. Oritz Rojas
• UNFAO Andrey Urcelaveta