| Sea has always fascinated man. Fishing has | | | | are been in use all these years. Fish that |
| been the oldest form of earning livelihood. | | | | tries to swim through this net is caught as |
| At present fishing is not only for making a | | | | only its head is able to pass through the net |
| living, but men now explore the deep seas as | | | | and not the remaining part of the body. As |
| a passion and as a sport, particularly Deep | | | | the fish recedes it gets entangled by the |
| Sea Fishing. Whether you are venturing into | | | | gills. |
| the sea for fishing or for pleasure, make | | | | |
| sure you carry a jacket, sun-block cream, sun | | | | Drift nets are another form of gill net, |
| glasses, hat, cooler to bring your catch back | | | | which are not fixed anywhere and are allowed |
| home, rubber shoes and rain gear, if needed. | | | | to drift with the current. It is used for |
| | | | catching wide range of fish like tuna, squid, |
| To be successful in deep sea fishing, a | | | | shark and salmon. Trammel nets are like a |
| thorough knowledge about the methods and the | | | | wall of net with three layers. A fine meshed |
| equipments of fishing is necessary. Various | | | | net is sandwiched between two larger meshed |
| fishing methods have evolved down the years. | | | | nets. |
| Fishers do not hesitate to try out innovative | | | | |
| ideas. With the development of science and | | | | Handlines can be operated either from a |
| technology, innovative equipments are | | | | stationary or moving vessel. The fish caught |
| produced. Mechanization of gear handling has | | | | by handlines are usually of very high quality |
| made fishing easier than before. Fibre | | | | as the fish is alive when brought aboard the |
| technology has improved the performances of | | | | vessel. Long-lines are another type of |
| vessels by making it lighter than the | | | | fishing equipment which is used to capture |
| metallic ones. Navigation and fish detection | | | | cods and tunas. Long-lines can be set up for |
| with the help of computers has made fishing | | | | long distances and many short lines carrying |
| less time consuming than before. | | | | baited hooks are attached to it. The size and |
| | | | type of fish caught is dependent on the hook |
| To catch fish and other aquatic resources, | | | | size and the type of bait. Since it covers |
| various types of deep sea fishing equipments | | | | larger area in the sea, it is the most fuel |
| are in use all round the world. Fishing | | | | efficient fishing method. |
| equipments are classified based on the | | | | |
| principle used, and by how they are | | | | Harpoons are usually used to target mature |
| constructed. Trawlers, nets, poles and lines, | | | | fishes like shark, dolphins and swordfish. It |
| harpoons etc, are some of the modern day deep | | | | has a spear and a reel attached to it. Spear |
| sea fishing equipments. | | | | fishing employs modern elastic and pneumatic |
| | | | powered spear guns. SOund Navigation And |
| Trawlers are boats to which large trawl nets | | | | Ranging (SONAR) is used for acoustically |
| are attached and pulled through the water. | | | | locating the fishes. |
| The mesh size of the trawl nets can be | | | | |
| modified according to the purpose of the | | | | Pots or creels are traps which can be |
| catch and the type of the fish. The mechanism | | | | operated from a vessel. It is used for |
| of a bottom trawl is simple. The mouth of the | | | | capturing crabs, octopus and shell fish. |
| net is open in horizontal and vertical | | | | Purse seins are large wall of net which |
| directions and the body of the net leads the | | | | encircles a shoal of fish and get them pursed |
| fish inside the net. The fish gets collected | | | | or caught. |
| at the cod end of the net, which has suitable | | | | |
| mesh size. Using cod ends with bigger mesh | | | | Though many of those deep sea fishing |
| size considerably reduces the mortality of | | | | equipment enable selective fishing, some |
| fish fries in trawl nets. | | | | equipment like trawlers destroys the seabeds, |
| | | | the spawning ground of many fishes and hence |
| Net is the main device for catching fish. | | | | environmentalists are against bottom |
| Gill nets can be set at any depth from the | | | | trawling. Dynamite and cyanide fishing are |
| sea surface to the seabed. Gill nets are | | | | prohibited by law in many parts of the world |
| considered to be the oldest form of net and | | | | as it causes serious threats to aquatic life. |