Seine fishing
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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. Sei
Seining for fish in a river.
Haul seining with horses on the Columbia River
Seining at the Atlantic Ocean beach, St. Simons, Georgia, US, 1991
Fish swimming near the surface are surrounded by a wall of netting supported by floats.
Gillnetting
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Gillnetting is a fishing method that uses gillnets: vertical panels of netting that hang from a line with regularly spaced floaters that hold the line on the surface of the water. The floats are somet
Seine fishing
…deploying seine nets are known as seiners. Two main types of seine net are deployed from seiners: purse seines and Danish seines. A seine differs from a gillnet, in that a seine encloses fish, where a gillnet directly snares fish. The word seine has its origins in the Old English segne, which entered the language…
Oil painting of gillnetting, The salmon fisher, by Eilif Peterssen
Contemporary Canadian commercial salmon bowpicker on trailer. Gillnet is evident on the metal drum in the bow of the boat.
Fish and Wildlife Service worker on boat checking gillnet full of fish.
A fisherman repairs a gillnet (April 1973, St. Helens, Oregon)