Fishing Gear Classification

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Mentor: MR. RICO IAN D. TO-ONG
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Fishing Gear
Classification
RICO IAN D. TO-ONG

Mentor
July 30, 2022
Active Fishing Gear
- is a fishing device characterized by gear

movements, and/or the pursuit of the target
species by towing, lifting and pushing the
gears, surrounding, covering, dredging,
pumping and scaring the target species to
impoundments; such as, but not limited to
trawl, purse seine, danish seines, bagnets,
paaling, drift gillnets and tuna longline.
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Passive Fishing Gear

-characterized by the absence of gear
movement and/or the pursuit of the
target species; such as, but not limited
to, hook and line, fishpots, traps and gill
nets set acrosss the path of the fish
Surrounding Nets
• Rectangular in shape
• No distinct bag
• Vertically set in water to
surround pelagic fish
school
• Usually with purse line

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Purse Seine
• Tuck seine having the bunt or landing
piece at one end
• The whole net provided with a pursing
device
• Mechanically hauled by power block or
improvised hauling devise
SMALL PELAGIC
pangulong, kubkub
COMMERCIAL
ACTIVE
Roundscad, sardines,
mackerels, big eyed
scad, frigate/bullet
tuna
Juveniles, dolphins

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• TUNA PURSE SEINE

• Pangulong
• COMMERCIAL
• ACTIVE
• Tunas (skipjack, yellow
fin, bigeye)
• Doplhin, juvenile tuna
PURSE SEINE FLEET

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Ring Nets
• Bunt at the center
• Manually hauled on both sides
• No power block or hauling device
• Pangulong, pukot,
taksay,kalansisi, likum-
likum, kubkub, likos
• COMMERCIAL / MUNICIPAL
• ACTIVE
• Roundscad, mackerels,
sardines, bigeye scad, other
small pelagic
• Juveniles

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Ring Netter
Seine Nets
• Bag-shaped, with wings

• Pulled towards/along the
beach or stationary boat
• Can be used to catch both
demersal & pelagic
species

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• BEACH SEINE
• baling, sinsoro, sahid,
pangkit,patalang,
daklis
• COMMERCIAL /
MUNICIPAL
• ACTIVE
• mainly demersal
• includes small and
juveniles
Beach Seine
• Also known as drag seine
• Operated on smooth, gradually shelving shores
• Always hauled on the shore or river bank.

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Beach Seine Boat
Reef Seine
• Operated on reefs or rough grounds
• Has a corkline submerged and the leadline
continuously freed from snags by divers

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Round Haul Seine

• Seines payed out in a circle or an arc of a circle
• Ends of the wings then are pulled on-board
Stop Seine
• Composed of two separate parts: the seine proper and the stop
seine
• The first surrounds and impounds the school
• While the latter is shot inside the seine proper to collect the catch

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Danish Seine
• Has long wings with extremely long ropes used to keep the
mouth open
• Buli2, hulbot2, liba2,

hulahop, zipper,
hulahop, zipper
• COMMERCIAL /
MUNICIPAL
• ACTIVE
• Demersal & small
pelagic
• Includes small and
juveniles
• Use tom weight

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Modified Danish Seine Boat
Boom
Trawls
• Conical-shaped bag
• with 2 or more wings
• pulled by 1 or 2 boats

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Irish Trawl
• Long-winged trawl in which wooden or bamboo
outriggers are used in spreading the wings apart
Japanese Trawl
• Has detachable bamboo or wooden beam attached in
the main bridle bridle

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Spanish Trawl
• Otherwise known as “paranzella” or “parejas”
• Has comparatively long wings
• A pair of boats traveling in parallel direction at a fixed
and constant distance
Beam Trawl
• With comparatively short wings
• Has wooden beam attached to the tip of the upper
mouth

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Otter Trawl
• Short-winged trawl, having two otter boards or doors
• OTTER TRAWL
• High-opening
• Ordinary trawl
• Shrimp trawl
• galadgad, palupad
• COMMERCIAL /
MUNICIPAL
• ACTIVE
• Demersal & pelagic
• Juveniles, turtles,
bycatch (discards)

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VD Trawl
• A type of trawl designed by Vigneron and Dahl
• The otter doors attached some distance from the tip
of the wings
TRAWLERS

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Gillnets
• A net wall
• Upper end raised by float;
lower end weighted by
sinkers
• Set on the bottom,
mid/surface water.
Set Gill Net

• Anchored or in some way attached to the bottom
• Not free to move with the water current

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• BOTTOM SET GILLNET

• rabnot, panteng palunod,
pukot, ido-idos, pakatang
• MUNICIPAL
• PASSIVE
• Demersal fish
• SURFACE SET
GILLNET
• panteng
pangibabaw,
pangtalbok, sapaw
• MUNICIPAL
• PASSIVE
• Beakfish, garfish,
pelagic

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• MIDWATER SET
GILLNET
• panteng pangibabaw,
pangtalbok, sapaw
• MUNICIPAL
• PASSIVE
• Mackerels, small tuna
(frigate/bulet tuna)
Drift Gill Net

• Usually fixed to boat or other craft and is free to move
with the wind or tide

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Encircling Gill Net

• Paved out in a circle
• Gilling process hastened by frightening the fish with
various devices.
• Panglikos, pukot, takibo,

sapyaw, patitig
• MUNICIPAL
• ACTIVE
• juveniles

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Trammel Gill Net

• Net consisting of two or three layers
• Inner or middle one (fine-meshed) being slack while
the outer (coarse-meshed) being stretched out
• Paradual,
transmaliyo, pukot,
pamalu, 3-ply,
pangbalo
• MUNICIPAL
• PASSIVE
• Demersal & reef
fish

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Gill Netter/Hook and Line
Line (Hook & Line)
• Consists of line(s) and hook(s)

• Maybe baited or unbaited
• Use to catch fish at various depths/water
column

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Simple Handline
• Also known as dropline
• A single vertical line carrying one or two barbed
hooks
• Worked by simply dropping it into the water
• kawil, pasol, og-

og, baniit
• MUNICIPAL /
COMMERCIAL
• Used to catch
both small &
large pelagic;
demersal fish

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Multiple Handline
• A single vertical line with a small series of barbed
hooks attached to spreaders
• og-og, kawil,
ondak, bira-bira
• MUNICIPAL
• small pelagic
and demersal
fish

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Jigger
• Line bearing a multiple-hooked device
• Work by jerking up and down under a bright light
(making the hooked lure attractive to squids)
Pole and Line

• Handline attached to a pole and used with acceptable
baits of all kinds

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Troll Line
• Fished horizontally with a hook
or hooks attached at the free
end
• Baited with either a natural bait
or an artificial lure
• Towed behind a boat underway
• saba2, hila2, sibid2,

bilog 2, rabok,
paguyod, paguroy,
bantak
• MUNICIPAL
• Large pelagic
(yellowfin, bigeye
tuna, marlin,
billfish, sharks

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Set Long Line
• Longline anchored or in some

way attached to the bottom
• Kitang
• MUNICIPAL
• PASSIVE
• Demersal / reef fish
(snappers,
groupers, etc)

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Drift Long Line
• Longline without a fixed

attachment to the bottom
• TUNA DRIFT
LONGLINE
• kitang paanod,
pangalabaw
• COMMERCIAL
• ACTIVE
• Tunas, billfish, large
pelagic, sharks
• Sea turtles, sea
birds

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Tuna Longliner
Lift Gears
• Sheet of net,
sometimes conical
• Stretched/held by
rods, ropes or frame
• Set either at the
bottom or mid-water
• Lifting motion traps or
catches fish

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Lift Net
• Net in which the capture is

effected by a vertical lifting
motion
• new look, lapgap,

tangkal, salambaw,
bukatot
• MUNICIPAL
• ACTIVE
• Juveniles, sea turtle

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Dip Net
• Shaped and framed small bag nets, used entirely by
hand or by mechanical power
• Fish are captured by scooping motion
Push Net
• Triangularly-framed, collapsible net used by one man
• Pushing motion to capture target fish

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Skimming Net
• Lifted push net operated in deeper waters
• Using a skimming motion while drifting with the vessel
Crab Lift Net

• Framed shallow lift net which is baited, sunk to the
bottom by line
• Hauling is timed, thus requiring only periodical attention

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• crab (bintol)
• shrimp (pakik-kik)
• MUNICIPAL
• PASSIVE
• Crab, shrimps
Drive-in Net
• Framed or unframed lift nets operated with a scareline

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Lever Net
• Rigidly-framed lift net mounted on a bamboo raft
Blanket Net
• Operated with the aid of light or
chummed bait
• The entire gear is hauled in with a
partly-pulling and partly-lifting motion

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Bag Net
• Conical or cubical bag net operated
with the aid of light during the dark of
the moon
• The capture effected by a lifting motion
• basnig, singapong,
pantalukap
• COMMERCIAL /
MUNICIPAL
• ACTIVE
• Small pelagic,
anchovies
• juveniles

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Falling Gear
• Usually cone-
shaped net
• dropped or casted
• hand-operated in
shallow waters
• operated from a
boat or raft
Cast Net
• Conical net usually operated by one man which is
thrown to cover the fish

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• dala, tabukol, bintay, laya

• MUNICIPAL
• ACTIVE
• Demersal, pelagic
Trap
• Set or stationed in water,
regardless of material
• Fish trapped are prevented
to escape by labyrinth
device (funnels, non-return
valve, gorges)

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Fish Corral
• Guiding barrier constructed of bamboo, brush or
chicken wire
• Set along the natural path of fish movement
• baklad
• MUNICIPAL
• PASSIVE
• Demersal, pelagic
• Juveniles

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Filter Net
• Fixed, usually conical, bag net without nonreturn
valve, set in flowing water
• Capture of fish effected by straining
Hoop Net
• Funnel-like bag net constructed over circular hoops,
having nonreturn valves but have no wings

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Fyke Net
• Almost the same with hoop net but with wings
Tuna Trap Net

• Also known as Otoshi-ami or
lambaklad
• A Japanese fishing gear
introduced in Paluan, Mindoro
• Gear with one or two entrances
• Resembles the operation of the
ordinary bamboo stake trap

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• FISH POT
bubo, nasa
• CRAB POT
bubo,panggal
• SQUID POT
pangnukos, choco
• MUNICIPAL
• PASSIVE
Hand Instruments
• Simplest in designs and structure

• Not complicated to operate

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Snare Crab Hook
Spear Harpoon

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Scoop
DREDGES
• Iron or net basket;

rectangular frame
• Dragged or pushed
along the seabed
• Usually for collection
of shellfish
• Collects through Hand dredge
sieving sudsod, sarap, galadgad, pangahig

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Lecture Notes in

2022 ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM for the

Lecture on Capture Fisheries

RICO IAN D. TO-ONG

Active Fishing Gear

- is a fishing device characterized by gear

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Passive Fishing Gear

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• TUNA PURSE SEINE

PURSE SEINE FLEET

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• Bag-shaped, with wings

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Beach Seine Boat

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Round Haul Seine

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• Buli2, hulbot2, liba2,

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Modified Danish Seine Boat

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Set Gill Net

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• BOTTOM SET GILLNET

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Drift Gill Net

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Encircling Gill Net

• Panglikos, pukot, takibo,

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Trammel Gill Net

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Gill Netter/Hook and Line

Line (Hook & Line)

• Consists of line(s) and hook(s)

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• kawil, pasol, og-

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Pole and Line

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• saba2, hila2, sibid2,

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Set Long Line

• Longline anchored or in some

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Drift Long Line

• Longline without a fixed

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• Net in which the capture is

• new look, lapgap,

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Crab Lift Net