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Question:

Name some more different methods to catch fish and how they are used and for what type of fish and ecological damage

Author: Asger LIndberg-Nielsen



Answer:

Bottom trawl - cone shaped pulled just above or on seabed - Very efficient to catch many fish - can have high ecological damage - bycatch and seabed damage Pelagic trawl - as bottom trawl but in the pelagic - use echosounders to locate fish position and depth - can have bycatch but methods are used to avoid


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Bottom trawl 
- cone shaped pulled just above or on seabed
- Very efficient to catch many fish
- can have high ecological damage - bycatch and seabed damage

Pelagic trawl
- as bottom trawl but in the pelagic
- use echosounders to locate fish position and depth
- can have bycatch but methods are used to avoid
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