Crab liftnet

                 This is one of the oldest fishing gears in Thailand, as well as in other parts of the world.  The materials of which the gear is made may have changed, but the shape and the technique of use have remained

                     The gear consists of a bamboo or metal frame for the net, and a bamboo pole or a rope with a buoy.  The frame is usually round, 40-50 cm in diameter, or square with 45 cm long sides.  The height of the frame is 15 cm.  Nowadays, the net is polyethylene or nylon, with 70-140 mm mesh-size.  The fisherman can use this gear in very shallow water, from a rowing-usually mangrove crab and blue swimming crab.  Fishing is done in the day or night-time, all the year round.

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