Active Capture Gear • Human or mechanical action moves gear to fish • Dragged or towed gears – Trawls – Dredges • S

1. Active Capture Gear • • Human or mechanical action moves gear to fish • • Dragged or towed gears • – Trawls • – Dredges • • Surrounding or encircling nets • – Seines • • Angling

2. Midwater trawls

4. Tucker trawl

6. Pelagic paired trawl

7. Single boat demersal trawl

9. Beach or bag seine encircles fish

11. Seines often used for prey fishes or young sport fishes Gizzard Shad Minnows and shiners Largemouth Bass and Bluegill

12. Purse seine encircles fish in open water

13. Purse seine being set and purse line pulled

15. Purse seine is a complicated gear; often justified for open-water species (e.g., shad)

16. Angling as a sampling tool - Active? Probably. - A valid ampling technique, but with biases - Valid use in mark-recapture studies - No matter what, you’ll catch some grief: your parents always knew you were going into this profession so you could get paid to hunt or fish.

17. On a Commercial Scale

20. Pole Fishing for Tuna

23. Scallop Dredging

26. Longline and Drift Nets • baited • miles long • disadvantages