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Fishing Techniques


Overview:
Modern commerical fisheries use a multitude of different techniques that help them to target particular species. Many of the common techniques are the most inefficent and produce the largest amount of  bycatch, however they are often the least expensive techniques to practice.  While those techniques that are more precise are often the most expensive and the least lucrative.

There are many different types of fishing techniques used around the world. In the following pages you can explore some of them that are the most damaging and most beneficial to our oceans.  There has been a focus made on those techniques that are used in commerical fisheries.