2. There are various fishing gear used in
catching fish and other fish products and
different methods of construction and
operation are involved. Some fishermen and
their relatives practice the different ways of
constructing agear to augment family income.
4. 2. Active gear - a method that depend on
the psychological reaction of fish to
certain physical or chemical properties
• a. Mechanical stupefying
1. Hitting a fish directly with any object like
stones, clubs, hammersetc.
2. Hitting a submerged stone with another where
fish is hiding.
3. Using of dynamite detonated by a blasting cap
with a short fuse.
6. 4. Wounding Gear - gears used by man
who to wound a fish from somedistance
either by throwing pointed objects or using
special equipment.
a. Spears, Lances and Arrows -
instruments with pointed barbed or
barbless blades at the right straight tip
which are not removable from thehandle
and generally thrown by hand or sometimes
from a gun or bow-like device like pana,
sibat, salapang or tiksal
7. b. Harpoons - pointed instruments with
barbed blades detachable from the handle
and either thrown by hand or discharged
from a gun, panibat, or pamaril.
8. c. Fishing Rifle is a fishing implement
designed to launch a spear at fish or other
underwater animals.
9. 5. Barriers and Traps - gears that lead the fish into
a situation or enclosure from which it cannot
escape or from which the way of escape is not
easily located.
10. a. Barricades - complete barriers
made of wooden trunks, debris, mud,
weeds, banana stalks, rocks or
bamboo webbing built across the
natural migration path of fish.
11. b. Fish shelter - a structure made of
anchored bunches of twigs and
bushes, piles of rocks or poles which
become the hiding place for fishes.
12. c. Fish coral - a guiding barrier
constructed of bamboo, brush or
chickenwire which is set in tidal
waters or along natural ways of
fishes.
13. d. Fish pots - basket-like enticing
devices usually baited and made of
bamboo, chicken wire, rattan and
other suitable materials.
14. 6. Fishing with lines - method of
line fishing with hooks that
follows the principle of offering the
fish real or artificial bait which it
tries to catch.
15. a. Handlines - long simple lines with one
or small series of hooksrequiring
constant attention
Simple handline or drop line-pangawil or
kawil - single line with oneor two barbed
hooks
17. • Jigger - used in catching squids
(kawil pangpusit)
18. Pole and line - handline attached to a pole
(bingwit) used with various kinds baits
(baliwasnan or bingwit)
19. Troll line - handline with a hook at the free
end with natural orartificial bait drawn or
towed by a fast-moving banca or boat.
20. Longlines - extremely long
lines with a large series of
baited hooks either set or
drifting that requires only
periodical attention at more or
less a fixed time intervals.
21. Set long lines – are
lines anchored or fixed
and not free to move
with the current.
25. Cast net – a conical net wich
when thrown forms a circle
covering the fish.
26. 9. Fish Impounding Nets –
gear usually made of woven
or knitted fibers withmesh to
confine the fish.
Filter nets – a conical bag net
without funnel – shaped valves
made ofsinamay cloth or
cotton netting fixed shrimps,
crabs, fishes etc.
27. b. Hoop nets – funnel – shaped
bag-nets constructed over
circular frames that have non-
return valves but no wings.
Can catch fishes in rivers and
places with fast currents by
straining the water (bukato na
lambat).
28. c. Fyke nets – winged conical filter
nets with a series of circular hoops
leading into a closed sac or trap with
a small opening that makes exit
difficult. (dayakos)
29. d. Pound nets – fixed impounding
net supported by stakes or held in
place or maintained in form by a
combination of floats or buoys and
weights and anchors (otoshi-ami)
30. 10. Scooping nets – net that
take fish by submerging a
hanging net and swiftly lifting
the gear to capture or enclose
the fish over it.
a. Dip nets (salap or salok)
36. g. New Look – a lift net is like a
bag net but the handling process is
accomplished from a rectangular
platform supported by four-corner
posts
37. h. Two Boat or Four Boat Lift Net-
lift nets in which the corners are
lifted from anchored boats.
38. h. Push Nets – a small triangular
fishing net with a rigid frame that is
pushed along the bottom in shallow
waters and is used in parts of the
southwestern Pacific for taking
shrimps and small bottom-dwelling
fishes.
39. j. Skimming Nets – lift push nets
operated in deeper water from a
small banca or raft that use a
skimming motion while drifting with
the boat. (anod sulong)
40. 11. Drive-in Gear – a gear
uses a scare line or other
devices to frighten the fish
toward the net. The harvest of
the fish is affected by the
lifting process of the nets.
Drive-in-net (kalaskas)
42. 12. Dragged Gear – nets which are
pulled through the water or near
the bottom or even pelagically for
an unlimited time
a. Dredges – net used to collect shell fish
by raking or scratching action.
(kaladkad)
43. b. Trawls – nets in the form of a conical
bag with the mouth kept open by various
devices and the entire gear is towed
behind a moving boat. (galadgad or
taksay). I.e, bottom trawl and mid-water
or pelagic trawl
Bottom Trawl
45. 13. Seine nets – nets that consist of a bust or bag with
very long wings or towing warps. The capture of fish is
done by surrounding a certain area of water with school
of fish and towing the gear over this area with both ends
to a fixed point on the shore or on a vessel
49. d. Reef seine - can operate on reefs or over
rough grounds.
50. 14. Surrounding Nets - fishing devices
made of long walls of webbings;
capture of fish is by surrounding the fish
not only from the side but also from
beneath.
a. Round haul seine (sapyaw)
55. 15. Gill Nets - simple walled curtain-
like nets set vertically in water.
a. Set gill nets - are nets that anchored or
fixed – largarete patuloy,palagiang paningahan.
56. b. Drift gill nets - gill nets that are set free from
the bottom and free todrift with the current
(panti)
57. c. Encircling gill net - nets spread out in a circle
and gilling process is hastened by frightening
the fish with various devices mostly by noise.
(batingor halang)
58. d. Trammed nets - the capture is by entangling the
fish itself in the pockets or spaces created by the
nets while the fish is try to escape. (transmalyo)
