LIFTNET
FISHING
The
liftnet is traditionally a small-scale fishing gear that
has been used in all coastal areas for catching crabs, planktonic
shrimp and shallow-water fishes. In the late 1970s
and the early 1980s, a modified lifenet, better known as
the stick-held dip-net, became very popular for squid and
anchovy fishing with luring lights.
There
are no independent statistical records for lift net fishing. The
data appear either as a part of t he general small-scale
fisheries, or else they are inseparable from the records
of the squid castnet fishery, classify lift nets into four
basic types:
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