One of the principal
traditional fishing technique is Potting. Bait
is kept inside a pot on the seafloor, and the
target fish is lured by the presence of the
bait. Lines are kept attached on the seashore
to the pot.
The instant the
fish is lured, the pot is pulled up to the surface,
and fish is thus caught! A second method is
by hook and line. This may be a stationary long
line which reaches from the surface of the water
to the seafloor. This long line may be up to
150 fathoms deep or long.
Catching fish
by hook and line can also be done by tow or
by trolling. Troll lines might be 10 fathoms
deep. This method is not stationary. In fact,
the tow or troll line is attached to the end
of a fast moving boat.
Frozen Shrimp:
Fishing Nets - Types
A very important
technique of catching fish is by the use of
fishing nets. Basically, there are 4 main types
of fishing nets. A purse seine surrounds itself
round the fish, from the surface of the sea
upto ten fathoms deep. A midwater trawl is a
net that is dragged or towed after a moving
boat so that the fish can be caught over a deep
length, from the surface to near the bottom.
The bottom trawl can either be towed or used
to encircle fish near the ocean floor.
Gill nets are
stationary, hanging from the boat's surface
to the sea bottom. This can be up to fifty fathoms
deep. Fishing facts can also be classified not
only according to methods of catching the fish,
but also according to the locations at which
they are caught. In fact, various methods of
harvesting of the shrimp are largely determined
by the location of the target shrimp. Basically,
there are three general locations where fish
can be caught or harvested. The first is the
ocean floor.
This is the home
of shellfish like frozen shrimp, crab, scallops,
etc. The second location where fish can be harvested
is the deep ocean floor bottom. Here, you can
find the bottom fish or the Demersal fish that
tend to live nearer the ocean floor. These include
cod, pollock, halibut, flounder, snapper, grouper,
and haddock. The third location is the surface,
or rather near the surface of the oceans. Here,
ou can find the surface fish or the Pelagic
fish that tend to live nearer the surface. Surface
fish often include salmon, swordfish, shark,
herring, tuna, and squid.
Fishing lines
used for catching the fish are made of a wide
variety of materials. Fishing lines can be made
of India grass, of silk alone, a combination
of silk and hair, of hemp, of flax, and of cotton.
Gut lines too can be made, but these are not
easily managed.
However, in modern
times, some of these outdated methods and materials
of making the fishing lines are no longer used.
In the past, some of the best trout lines used
to be made of India grass, though silk, or silk
and hair were also frequently used in trout
fishing. While trout lines are usually from
eight to eighteen yards long, they are also
of various degrees of fineness according to
the size of the fish angled for, or the clearness
of the stream. For different types of fish,
different materials of differing length are
often used. Salmon, bass, and pickerel lines
are now made from hemp, flax, silk, grass or
hair. They vary in length from 30 to 150 yards.
Cotton and hemp lines are made for trolling
purposes, while for fishing seafish generally
the length of these lines will vary according
to the condition or depth of your fishing grounds.
In fact, the size of all lines should vary according
to the state of the streams or size of your
fish. Usually, clear streams require as small
lines as possible as this will answer the purpose.
If you have a good multiplying reel, the line
should definitely be as long as the reel will
carry.
In the U.S.,
consumption of fishery products was 15.2 pounds
of edible meat per person in 1994, up 0.2 pounds
from the 1993 per capita consumption of 15.0
pounds. In an American survey on tourism, visitors
ranked the availability of fresh, locally caught
seafood as #3 in order of importance related
to a successful vacation.
U.S. consumers
spent an estimated $39.4 billion for fishery
products in 1994. The 1994 total includes $26.4
billion in expenditures at food service establishments
like restaurants, carry-outs, caterers, etc.;
$12.5 billion in retail sales for home consumption;
and $487.4 million for industrial fish products.
By producing and marketing a variety of fishery
products for domestic and foreign markets, the
commercial marine fishing industry contributed
$20.2 billion in value added to the U.S. gross
national production.
In the United
States, the recreational participation of fishing
anglers is greater than golfers by the ratio
of two to one. In fact, nearly 50 million people
go fishing for recreational purposes in the
United States. Florida has the highest number
of adult anglers with California second and
Texas third. The top ten states with the largest
number of adult anglers are Florida, California,
Texas, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Louisiana,
North Carolina, New York and South Carolina.
The economics
of fishing in the United States is mind-boggling.
Fishing for recreation and relaxation contributes
more than $108 billion to the US economy. If
fishing for fun were a corporation it would
rank 13th in the Fortune 500 list of America's
largest busineses. In terms of revenue, this
would place the non-professional fishing industry
above corporate giants Texaco and Dupont. 570,000
new boats were sold in 1998 with $19 billion
in overall spending on boating. Recreational
fishing creates salaries and wages totaling
about $28 billion and contributes $3.1 billion
in federal incime tax, about one third of the
entire federal budget for agriculture.
The money spent
by an angler when buying fishing equipment and
motor boat fuels helps support a Federal Program.
Manufacturers of fishing equipment pay an excise
tax that is passed along in retail price to
anglers. Since 1950 state fish and wildlife
agencies received more than $2.6 billion to
increase recreational fishing and boating opportunities
across the United States. The money from these
funds helped to build more than 1,200 fishing
and boating access sites and purchase over 260,000
acres of habitat and access sites. Also some
money was used for research projects to improve
fisheries management and educate children and
adults about angling and aquatic resources.
This allows fish and wildlife agencies to improve
fishing and boating in their states. The results
are more opportunities for the public to enjoy
fishing and boating. The states rely on fishing
license fees to provide 25% of the money received
from the Federal program. License fees are to
be use exclusively by their fish and wildlife
agencies.
About 60% of
US Anglers practice catch and release. Woman
make up about 33% of freshwater anglers. About
85% of fresh water anglers begin fishing at
12 years old. And, the top three reasons people
fish are for relaxation, to be close to nature
and to spend time with family and friends.
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