chonzskypedia

Trap net (lambaklad, Tagalog; oto-shiami, chuko-ami, mam-ami, and daibo-ami, Japanese) is a kind of net, set in deep coastal waters, fixed by anchors to the sea bottom and buoyed by floats at the surface. It is provided with a "leader" or "guide" set across the natural path of the fish migration guiding schools of fish into the playground and then to the "catching pound" or brail part where it is finally concentrated.

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  mothe r 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...

This gear is used exclusively for catching fish that go in schools or swim near the surface of the water such as mackerels, sardines, roundscads, caranx, tunas, and bonitos. A ring net (Batangas, pukot or tala­kop) is a rectangular net held vertically in the water by a line or floats above the water surface and a line of lead sinkers below with bunt at the center and pursing device along the sinker line.      This type of fishing gear is operated in the open sea during daytime or night­time by eight to 29 fishermen on board a powered boat. A skiff boat is used to encircle and impound a school of fish. Fish are caught by means of a pursing device or a ropei line rove through a series of rings attached to the ground rope. This pursing device  closes the bottom rim of the net when impounding a school of fish.

A purse seine net (pangulongj is a type of tuck seine where the bunt or brailing part is generally located at the end of the wings. It is like a long wall, the web­bing of almost uniform mesh size hanging between the float and the lead or sinker line. The distinct feature of the gear is the encircling and impounding of the school of fish by closing the bottom with the use of a purse line that passes through purse rings attached to the leadline by bridles at regular intervals. It is differen­tiated from the ring net (talakop) by the position of the bunt and mode of hauling.

Species of fish that live mostly in or near the bottom constitute the catch of an otter trawl. These species include shrimps, slipmouths, goatfishes, groupers, hairtails, snappers, croakers , whiting, lizard fishes, soles, eels, crabs, nemipte-rids and other benthic fishes. An otter trawl (galadgad) is a conical bagnet with a mouth opening flanked on both sides by wings which are kept open by otter boards/doors acting as kites, dragged/pulled to catch species of fish living in or near the bottom of the sea. This fishing gear is operated during daytime or night time in waters of mode­rate depths, and some distance from the shore. The trawl net is towed/dragged along the smooth bottom of the sea by a power-propelled vessel. The other doors, which are connected to the towing rope glide as kites stretching the wings and the mouth, is vertically opened by floats on the headrope and sinkers on the ground rope. When the gear is towed along, all the fishes encountered on its path are...

Gill net is a curtain-like net consisting of a set of one or more pieces of rec­tangular nets made usually of nylon twine, each 92 meters long and 10 meters deep, effecting the capture of fish by gilling or entangling. A line with wooden floats (25.4 mm x 457.2 mm) is attached to the upper portion of the net made of twine of 210/26 which is joined at the lower portion of the main net/webbing. This thicker webbing serves as weight or sinkers.

Fishes caught by bagnet are those that have phototactic habits such as anchovies, squids, sardines and other similar species of fish. A bagnet (Samal, balasnig; Tagalog, Ilongo, and Cebuano, basnig) is a box­like net operated from outriggers or booms (tikday) of a boat with the aid of light, luring fish by its lowering and lifting motions. The gear stimulates an inverted mosquito net under the boat during operation. The size of the nets depends on the length spread of the out­riggers or booms from which it is opera­ted. This gear is operated during the dark phases of the moon with the aid of a po­werful light by eight to 12 or more fish­ermen. The net is carefully spread under the boat and then lifted to impound the school of fish attracted by one or more incandescent or electric lamps. Usually, the bagnet fishing boat operates in wa­ters of 20 to 75 meters deep in bays, gulfs, oceans and seas.

Beach seine (pukot, dayakos, baling, salop, baring) is a drag net made of cloth, sinamay, polyethelene or cotton nettings consisting of a bag or bunt flanked on both sides by two long wings. Attached to the upper rim of the net is a head  rope provided with floats. To the lower rim is a ground rope provided with a sinker/ weight. The floats and sinker lines a extended to the wing bridles whe wooden brails are attached. Pull rop are tied to the brails and used to cha the net to the beach.