net which catches the fish by surrounding them both from the sides and from underneath, thus preventing them from escaping in deep waters by diving downwards
1. Encircling nets (seines and lampara nets)
- The length of netting is restricted to 800 m and the drop to 120 m, except in the case of tuna seines.
2. The task of surrounding nets is to encircle a fish school in such a way that it cannot escape; the fish are landed with dip nets out of the encircling net; the bestknown forms of surrounding nets are ring nets and purse seines.
Good to know
Apart from a few exceptions, they are surface nets in which the floatline is supported by numerous floats.
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