Round Haul Seine

Round haul seine (Tagalog, sapyaw) is like a dip net with a bunt at the center payed out in arc form around a school of fish. Fish are attracted to lights, then hauled on board two boats by means of pull ropes attached to the lower half of the net.

Round haul seine is operated during the dark phases of the moon. The outfit is composed of a powered boat of 10-15 gross tons with 30 h.p. heavy duty engine or 190 high-speed gasoline engine, two sapyaw boats, three light boats (lawa­gan), and sapyaw net. This gear is usually

operated by 40 to 50 fishermen.

The powered boat serves both as the mother ship and tug boat of the sapyaw boats and lawagan in going to the fishing grounds and back to the homeport.

The round haul seine boats (sapyawan) are appropriate for both catching and fish-carrying operations. The boats are ordinary dugouts of about three tons 04 more, each provided with one outrigger. The smaller dugout (lawagan) with two outriggers, fitted with two or more lights, functions to attract the school of fish.