Seine fishing is a method of fishing that employs a surrounding net, called a seine, that hangs vertically in the water with its bottom edge held down by weights and its top edge buoyed by floats. Seine nets can be deployed from the shore as a beach seine, or from a boat.
Seining for fish in a river.
Haul seining with horses on the Columbia River
Fish swimming near the surface are surrounded by a wall of netting supported by floats.
A school of about 400 tons of jack mackerel encircled by a Chilean purse seiner
A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish and other valuable nektonic aquatic animals in the sea, lake or river. Humans have used different kinds of surface vessels in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing.
Crab boat working the North Sea
Fishing boats lashed together in a tidal creek in Anjarle village, Maharashtra, India
Viking boat showing clinker planking.
Herring Buss taking aboard its drift net (G. Groenewegen).