Von Brandt's Fish Catching Methods of the World

by Gabriel, Otto; Lange, Klaus; Dahm, Erdmann; Wendt, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780852382806
• ISBN10: 0852382804
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In the sixteen years since the last edition of Von Brant's classic work was published, fishing and fisheries have undergone vast changes. Not only has there been great progress in the development of new tools, materials and techniques, but the industry has seen an increasing need to address controversial issues such as declining fish stocks, enormous quantities of bycatch and discard and the impact of towed fishing gear on the environment. Fully revised and updated to reflect such changes, the fourth edition of this widely read and popular book offers:A unique, comprehensive survey of the evolution of fishing methods throughout the world Approximately 750 illustrations showing the extensive range of methods, techniques and equipment used in fishing across the globe Fishing gear classified according to the FAO system Additional chapters: Fishing Effects on Fish Stocks and Environment and Fishery and Gear ResearchAll researchers, fisheries scientists, fisheries students, administrators and libraries in universities and research establishments where fish and fisheries are studied and taught will find this book a valuable addition to their shelves. Commercial and sports fishermen will also find Fish Catching Methods of the World a fascinating and vital reference.

Author Biography

Otto Gabriel is the editor of Von Brandt's Fish Catching Methods of the World, 4th Edition, 4th Edition, published by Wiley.

Klaus Lange is the editor of Von Brandt's Fish Catching Methods of the World, 4th Edition, 4th Edition, published by Wiley.

Erdmann Dahm is the editor of Von Brandt's Fish Catching Methods of the World, 4th Edition, 4th Edition, published by Wiley.

Thomas Wendt is the editor of Von Brandt's Fish Catching Methods of the World, 4th Edition, 4th Edition, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface to the fourth edition	p. xi
Catching methods in fisheries: an introduction	p. 1
Fisherman and hunter	p. 2
From subsistence fishing to commercial fisheries	p. 3
Sport fishing and commercial fisheries	p. 4
Active and passive fishing gear	p. 5
Basic ideas for fishing methods: their distribution and possible improvement	p. 5
Division of labour and collective fishing	p. 7
Manpower, mechanization and automation	p. 9
Fishing technology	p. 10
Fishing by gathering	p. 12
Hand-picking	p. 12
Stranded prey	p. 16
Catching by bailing out	p. 17
Implements for 'gathering' in fisheries	p. 17
Fishing with the feet	p. 18
Mechanization of gathering	p. 19
Male and female divers	p. 21
Divers catching fish and supporting fishing operations	p. 21
Diving equipment	p. 22
Female divers	p. 25
Tools and collecting bags	p. 26
Technological progress in diving	p. 28
Animals as a help in fisheries	p. 31
Horses and fishermen	p. 31
Dogs used in fisheries	p. 32
Fishing with otters	p. 33
Fishing with birds	p. 33
Cormorant fishing	p. 34
Driving fish with diving birds	p. 36
Sucker fish for catching turtles	p. 39
Fishing with octopus	p. 39
Using the friendly porpoise	p. 40
Fish harvesting after stupefying	p. 42
Simple forms of mechanical stupefying	p. 42
Stupefying with dynamite	p. 43
Fish poisoning	p. 44
Fishing with industrial chemicals	p. 47
Deoxygenation or suffocation	p. 48
Electrical fishing	p. 48
Electrified gear in sea fisheries	p. 51
Spearing, harpooning and shooting fish	p. 53
Spearing with pushed gear	p. 53
Fish plummets	p. 58
Eel combs	p. 58
Fishing with thrown spears	p. 60
Fishing with bow and arrow	p. 60
Harpooning	p. 62
Whaling	p. 65
Harpooning swordfish	p. 68
Fishing with blowguns	p. 70
Shooting fish	p. 72
Fishing with clamps, tongs, rakes and wrenching gear	p. 76
Clamps	p. 76
Tongs	p. 77
Rakes	p. 80
Wrenching gear for harvesting seaweed	p. 80
Further developments	p. 81
Line fishing: basic implements	p. 83
Bobbing	p. 83
Gorges	p. 86
Forerunners of modern hooks	p. 88
Modern fishing hooks	p. 89
Lines and casts	p. 94
Swivels, stops, rotating links and snaps	p. 96
Otter boards	p. 97
The kite	p. 100
Stabilizers	p. 102
Line fishing: gear and methods	p. 105
Handlines	p. 105
Pole-and-line fishing	p. 108
Set lines	p. 112
Bottom longlines	p. 114
Driftlines	p. 118
Troll lines	p. 121
Fishing with roundhaulers	p. 126
Modern progress in line fishing	p. 127
Fishing for sport and recreation	p. 136
Rods and reels	p. 137
Float fishing	p. 141
Ground fishing and ledgering	p. 141
Spin fishing and jigging	p. 143
Fly fishing	p. 146
Sport trolling and big game fishing	p. 147
Attracting, concentrating and frightening fish	p. 150
Optical lures	p. 151
Light fishing	p. 151
Chemical lures	p. 153
Sexual lures	p. 154
Acoustic bait	p. 155
Lure lines and aggregating devices	p. 157
Fish frightening methods	p. 160
New ideas	p. 161
Pole-hooks and rippers	p. 164
Pole-hooks and gaffs	p. 164
Fish harrows	p. 166
Pilking with handlines	p. 167
Rippers on stationary lines and troll lines	p. 169
Rippers for cephalopods	p. 173
Mechanization of jigging	p. 175
Net material and the art of net-making	p. 181
Stone walls, fences and netting	p. 182
Primitive knotless netting	p. 184
Knotted netting	p. 185
Modern knotless netting	p. 187
Natural and artificial shelters	p. 190
Bundles of brushwood	p. 190
Tubes for shelter	p. 192
Octopus pots	p. 195
Artificial reefs	p. 197
Permanent and temporary barriers	p. 199
Stone walls as tidal weirs and traps	p. 200
Fish fences	p. 202
Gratings in flowing waters	p. 204
Watched catching chambers	p. 207
From barrier to fish trap	p. 213
Trapping	p. 215
Tubular traps and thorn-lined traps	p. 215
Non-return devices	p. 218
Trapping barriers made of fences	p. 220
Wooden pots	p. 221
Pots made of wire	p. 227
Traps made of netting	p. 229
Plastic pots	p. 236
Ghost traps	p. 237
Trap systems, weirs and pound nets	p. 240
Mechanization in trapping	p. 246
Fishing in the air	p. 252
Salmon traps	p. 253
Fishing with rafts	p. 254
Boat traps	p. 254
Veranda nets	p. 257
Scoop nets for jumping fish	p. 259
Angling in the air	p. 261
Pitfall traps for fishes	p. 262
Mechanical fishing gear: traps, lines and snares	p. 264
Gravity traps	p. 265
Box traps	p. 266
Whippy bough or spring traps	p. 268
Torsion traps	p. 271
Snares	p. 271
Gillnetting	p. 275
Bottom-set gillnets and anchored floating gillnets	p. 278
Driftnets in sea fisheries and in fresh waters	p. 279
Dragged gillnets	p. 281
Advantages and disadvantages of gillnets	p. 282
Mechanization in gillnetting	p. 283
Entangling nets	p. 291
'Mopping'	p. 292
Single-walled tangle nets	p. 293
Tangle nets with snoods or frames	p. 296
Trammelnets	p. 297
Double-walled entangling nets	p. 299
Combined entangling and gilling nets	p. 302
Future trends and mechanization	p. 303
The drive-in fishery	p. 305
Scare lines	p. 306
Genuine drive-in nets	p. 307
Encircling gillnets	p. 310
Other gear for drive-in fishery	p. 311
Cover pots and cast nets	p. 314
Cover pots	p. 314
Lantern nets	p. 317
Cover nets	p. 318
Hand cast nets	p. 320
Boat cast nets	p. 324
Polynesian rectangular nets	p. 326
Lifnets and fish wheels	p. 329
Portable hand liftnets	p. 331
Stationary liftnets	p. 333
Blanket nets	p. 336
Modern boat liftnets	p. 341
Fish wheels	p. 346
From the scoop basket to the stow net	p. 350
Scoop baskets	p. 350
Scoop nets and skimming nets	p. 352
Brail nets with purse lines	p. 359
Push nets and dragged scoop nets	p. 359
Scrape nets	p. 362
Stationary stow nets in rivers	p. 364
Stow nets with vessels	p. 367
Stow nets in sea fisheries	p. 369
Gape nets with wings	p. 369
Closable stow nets	p. 372
Dredges and beamtrawls	p. 376
Hand-operated scratchers	p. 376
Boat dredges	p. 377
Beamtrawling	p. 382
Electrified beamtrawls	p. 389
Fishing with bottom trawls	p. 392
Trawling with outriggers	p. 392
Pair trawling	p. 393
Otter boards for bottom trawling	p. 394
Increasing the vertical trawl opening	p. 398
Bottom trawls for sea fisheries	p. 399
Shrimp trawling	p. 408
Inland water bottom trawls	p. 410
Trawl fisheries in three dimensions: Fishing with mid-water trawls	p. 414
Predecessors of mid-water trawls and semi-pelagic trawls	p. 414
Aimed trawling	p. 418
Two-boat and one-boat mid-water trawling	p. 419
Mid-water trawls in fresh water	p. 424
Problems of mid-water trawling	p. 426
Progress of trawling in the future?	p. 428
Seining in fresh and sea water	p. 431
Simple seining gear and 'bady' seine nets	p. 434
Seine nets in freshwater fisheries	p. 434
Seining below ice	p. 437
Beach seining	p. 439
Boat seining in sea fisheries	p. 441
Modernization of seine net fishing	p. 444
Fish shoals and surrounding nets	p. 449
Lampara-like surrounding nets	p. 450
Purse seines	p. 454
One-boat and two-boat seining	p. 456
Variations of lampara nets and purse seines	p. 461
Porpoises and tuna purse seining	p. 462
Mechanization and improvement of purse seining	p. 463
Fishing systems and harvesting machines	p. 473
Pump fishing	p. 474
Hydraulic dredges with pumps and/or conveyors	p. 476
Harvesting machines for aquatic weeds	p. 479
Fishing systems in the future	p. 480
Fishery and gear research	p. 483
General aspects of fishing gear research	p. 483
Optimization of function	p. 483
Optimization of operation	p. 489
Fishing effects on fish stocks, other marine animals and the environment	p. 493
Size selectivity	p. 494
Species selectivity	p. 499
Environmental impact	p. 502
Classification of catching methods	p. 507
Principles of classification	p. 507
Main groups of catching methods	p. 508
Revised classification	p. 509
Subject index	p. 516
Species and product index	p. 522
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