Fishing techniques and methods

trap used for fishing

type of fishing net

commercial fishing technique

species of fish

practice of fishing by drawing a baited line or lure behind a boat

winter activity of catching fish in frozen-over bodies of water

type of fishing net

style of fishing with seines / dragnets

using bombs underwater to kill fish

Eunicidae is a family of marine polychaetes (bristle worms), inhabiting diverse benthic habitats across Oceania, Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Africa.

Fishing using trained cormorants to catch large fish

thumb|300px|right|Scientists carrying out a population and species survey using electrofishing equipment Electrofishing is a fishing technique that uses direct current electricity flowing between a submerged cathode and anode. This affects the movements of nearby fish so that they swim toward the anode, where they can be caught or stunned.

practice of diving for pearls

act of throwing bait or a lure using a fishing rod, reel, and line

method of fishing

type of stationary lift net in India and Indonesia

land-based game fishing technique

angling technique

alt=Night bowfishing|thumb|367x367px|Modern sport bowfishing often occurs at night, shown here on a specialized boat: raised bow (watercraft)|bow platform with powerful [[floodlights to expose and attract fish during the placid condition of night, often with several bowfishers covering different sectors.]] Bowfishing is a fishing technique that uses specialized archery equipment to impale and retrieve fish. A bowfisher will use a bow or crossbow to shoot fish through the water surface with a barbed arrow tethered to a line, and then manually retrieve the line and arrow back, in modern times us

fish used as bait to attract predatory fish

a fishing method that uses a single fishing line operated entirely by hand, without a rod or reel, sometimes using weights to reach deeper water

Fishing method that paralyzes fish

fishing technique

thumb|right|A man with a fish caught by noodling thumb|Map of the US states where noodling is legal in some form thumb|upright| catfish caught by noodling in 2015

using trained otters to fish

type of shrimp fishing on horseback from Oostduinkerke

species of plant

basket used to trap fish

Malay fish trapping device

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.

methods for catching fish

fishing technique

device used in rivers to catch fish

thumb|Trabucco in Fossacesia, Abruzzo thumb|Overflow near Marina San Vito Chietino, in the [[Abruzzo Trabocchi Coast]] A trabucco (), known in some southern dialects as trabocco or travocc, is an ancient fishing structure typical to the Adriatic shores of Abruzzo — famously dubbed the Costa dei Trabocchi (Trabocchi Coast) and the Gargano coast, where they are preserved as historical monuments within the Gargano National Park. These distinctive structures are prevalent along the southern Adriatic coastline, particularly in the Italian provinces of Chieti, Campobasso, and Foggia. Trabucchi can a

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

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

right|thumb|Fishing method of Wagenya people.