Single boat bottom otter trawls - Fishing gear type
By A Mystery Man Writer
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ACER - Tool Talk: Bottom trawling and longlining
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Fisheries :: Home
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Demersal Trawl - General, Gear
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The true extent of trawl damage revealed
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Bottom Trawl Survey Gear Standardization
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Trawl design training workshop looked at factors affecting fish catchability - MSU Extension
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Fishing methods explained, What you can do
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2.: A visualisation of an otter board twin trawl operation (Seafish
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Reconstructing the past: design and function of Granton otter trawl gear at the turn of the twentieth century, as used in South Africa's first trawl surveys (1897–1904)
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Trawling - Wikipedia
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The main components (and their dimensions) of the trawl system combined