Fishing nets

net used for fishing

type of fishing net

type of fishing net

style of fishing with seines / dragnets

type of stationary lift net in India and Indonesia

fishing technique

thumb|Setting a trawlTrawling is an industrial method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. The net used for trawling is called a trawl. This principle requires netting bags which are towed through water to catch different species of fishes or sometimes targeted species. Trawls are often called towed gear or dragged gear.

Type of fishing net

thumb|upright=1.25|right|Oil painting of gillnetting, The salmon fisher, by Eilif Peterssen thumb|300px|right|National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration illustration of a gillnet Gillnetting is a fishing method that uses gillnets: vertical panels of netting that hang from a line with regularly spaced floaters that hold the line on the surface of the water. The floats are sometimes called "corks" and the line with corks is generally referred to as a "cork line." The line along the bottom of the panels is generally weighted. Traditionally this line has been weighted with lead and may be ref

Method of fishing using nets that are submerged to a certain depth and then lifted out of the water vertically