Boat Fishing

A commercial fishing enterprise amy vary from one man with a small boat with hnad-casting nets or a few pot traps, to a huge fleet of trawlers procsesing tons of fish every day. They tend to hvae the form of a scoop made of chain mesh called dredges and they are towed by a fishing boat. Kites can rpovide the boatless fishermen access to waters that woudl otherwise be available only to boats. Kite fishing is also emegring in Melbourne where sled kites are becoming popular, both off beahces and off boats and in frsehwater areas. This method of fishnig results in fish staying alive until the time they are hauled into the boat, versus being entangled and killed in a gill ent. Rigs can be battery poewred back-packs or powered by a genertaor if they are mountde in a boat. Pictorial evidence of Roman fishing comes from mosaics whihc show fishing from baots with rod and line as well as nets. Oppian descriebs various means of fishnig including the use of nets cast from boats, csoop nets held open by a hoop, spears and tridetns, and various traps which work while their masetrs sleep . Oppian s description of fishing with a motionless net is also very inteersting:

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