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  • Date:2015-08-03

Rope (Stick) Fishing
Fishing season: The whole year。

Inductive Trapping (Cages)
Fishing season: The whole year
●Fishing Method: Before the fishing boats arrives the fishing ground, hang the pieces of lure on the hooks, which are connected to ropes. Throw the ropes into sea according to the current status after arriving at the fishing ground. 4-5 persons are needed for the operation: the captain is responsible for sailing the boat, one for throwing floats, one for throwing fishhook and lure, one for throwing the main rope and sub-ropes, and one for conveying tools.
●Catches captured: groupers, breams, golden skin porgies and other bottom-inhabited fishes
●Fishing Method: By this method the aquatic animals may be induced into cages by lure, shadow or hidden articles. Connect each of the sub-ropes of the main rope to a kettle or cage with lure. Throw the ropes into the sea according to the current status after arriving at the fishing ground. Take back the ropes to take the quarry after a period of time. 
●Catches captured: octopus, cuttlefishes, crabs and other bottom-inhabited fishes
棲性魚類。
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Gill Net
Fishing season: The whole year
 Drag Net
●Gill net may be divided to floating gill net, bottom gill net, drift gill net and surrounding gill net according to different method of use and the depth of water where the net is laid.
●Floating gill net: It is suitable to be laid on the surface of water. One or two ends of the net are fixed by anchors. Generally, it is used in water near the coast.
●Bottom gill net: It is suitable to be laid on the bottom of the sea with large quantity of fishes. One or two ends of the net are fixed by anchors. Generally, it is used at the bottom of sea.
●Fishing Method: The net is composed of one bursa and two wings and is dragged by two long steel wires. The typical type is the long-sleeve net. One steel wire will be dragged by fishermen on the coast and another will be dragged by the fishing boat. The fishermen on boat will throw the bursa net and sleeve net into water successively. Then the boat drags the steel wire it dragged to the coast. The fishermen will drag two steel wires together and thus the catches may be captured.
●Catches captured: mainly bottom-inhabited fishes
●Drift gill net: The place for laying such a net is not fixed as it will move along the tide or wind within a large range of fishing ground. Fishes can be captured once they enter the net.
●Surrounding gill net: After the fish are surrounded, they will be scared and captured once they entered into the net
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Single-boat Drag Net
Fishing season: The whole year
Long-line Fishing(Double Fishing)
Fishing season: The whole year
●Fishing Method: A single boat drags a net (one bursa and two wings) by two long steel wires, each attached with a net board to prevent the net from extending horizontally. And thus the catches may be captured.   ●Fishing Method: Before the fishing boats arrives the fishing ground, hang the pieces of lure on the hooks, which are connected to ropes. Throw the ropes into the sea according to the current status after arriving at the fishing ground.
●Catches captured: mainly bottom-inhabited fishes ●Catches captured: mainly leopard sharks and bottom-inhabited fishes
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Cast Net(Throwing Net and Handheld Net)
Fishing season: The whole year
Tuck Net(Dip Net and Handheld Dip Net)
Fishing season: The whole year
Best fishing period: December-February
●Fishing Method: Cast net is suitable for capturing swimming fishes by covering the fish group from upside. It can be used in breeding pools, lakes, rivers or shallow seas. ●Fishing Method: This kind of net is generally small and the operation period tends to be short. Just a single person is needed to push the net in shallow sea in the morning or at nightfall.
●Catches captured: Mullet fry and perch fry.
●Catches captured: all fish species
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