Trammel nets.

[darenw]

Just see an ad for fishing nets from china on the top of this forum

[Lavy]

Interesting bit about the mussel beds,round here they used to shoot their nets on them and then tow big lumps of iron up and down to spook the fish into the nets because they wouldnt go in fast enough on their own. This in turn smashed up all the mussels so that was the end of that. Short sighted or what.

[darenw]

Yeah very shortsighted. Another boat I watched was too big to get under langstone bridge to shoot his nets so he sent a dorey under ,then netted off a whole bay of saltmarsh. The dorey then got inside and flew up and down scaring the fish into the net. He came back through under me and had 2 dustbins of mullet and bass.twonk. Its a nursery area now.

[slippery]

Sandown bay has been netted to death there are no rays/sole left at all,the nets were just passed the low tide mark, it was so bad last year that the weekly comp up sandown pier was turned in to a rover as they could not even get a pout up the pier. The boat in question has gone and has now been replaced by three boats!!!!! I would like to be able to ask mr blair just one question face to face!!

[upfalls]

As Slippery says they are out there every day, I have seen a net put the whole length of what Mike ladel called Quiet Bay, used to be some of the best Bass fishing on the Island. Floating nets can now go over rocky rough grounds. We have also had a beam trawlet in the bay, nothing left after that visit!

[vifferrider]

deanm said:

go into trammel nets on the web then go to the second section trammel nets and look at some of the bycatch pictures it is a disgrace.

Do you mean this page?


Is agree it is disgusting , inhumane and totally avoidable.

Here is an extract of the site



When some trammel fisheries were observed, it was found that a number of cetacean species were "incidentally captured" in trammel nets, including harbour porpoises, bottlenose dolphins, common dolphins, and striped dolphins.
ACCOBAMS



www.ukmarinesac.org.uk/activities/fisheries/f2_2.htm

Ghost Fishing: When trammel nets are lost or discarded,
they, like gill nets, continue to "fish" and kill marine creatures.


The available data clearly demonstrates that trammel fisheries
should be monitored by independent observers, as a matter
of priority, in order to establish accurate cetacean bycatch figures.

A Cetacean Bycatch Response Team should then develop a
Bycatch Response Strategy to reduce the number of cetaceans
killed in pelagic trawl nets.


It has become apparent that no single measure will reduce cetacean bycatch to an acceptable level, in any fishery.
It will require a combination of measures. Unless the Common Fisheries Policy is amended to incorporate a Cetacean Bycatch Response Strategy, thousands of cetaceans will continue to die in European waters.

[darenw]

It is disgusting ,dolphins are a beautiful creature loved by all and these guys KNOW they are killing them. Over 400 corpses were washed up last year and some showed signs of being stabbed ( probably to get them to sink) what sort of person could go to work each day and kill these creatures and then carry on . Sickening.

[Lavy]

This one was washed up at pett level near hastings a few weeks ago, Local wildlife people said it had probably been caught in a trammell and discarded.


Makes you sick.

[squideyebarnes]

wont be no marine mammals left soon.In the summer a pair of small dark brown dolphin types came to the back of my boat dont know what type they were,about 6 foot long,there prob dead now to friendly for there own good poor things.
Does anyone have any idea wot these were?