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Lingkong (purse seine) This gear is for catching pelagic fish species like jacks
and sardines in the offshore areas using an on-board vessel
with power blocks and luring lights. The purse seine boat (see Figure 6) is about 18 m LOA. It is operated
with a small wooden boat (skiff) to hold one end of the net.
The main vessel holding the other end of the net goes around
the school of fish which congregate around the fish aggregating
device (FAD) that was set a few days earlier. The rings under
the net are pulled together with a purse line to trap the fish
and then lifted onto the main vessel. The skiff is also used
as light boat to congregate all the fish grouped around a number
of FADs into one FAD. The nets are usually made of polyethylene
of 25.4 mm mesh size and of about 400 to 600 m in length.
