pound net

fishing

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use in commercial fishing

  • Tsukiji fish market
    In commercial fishing: Traps

    …or weirs, and the large pound nets. The oldest type may be the Italian tonnara, used in the Mediterranean for tuna from the Bosporus to the Atlantic. Very large pound nets are also used by the Japanese on the Pacific coast, by the Danes and their neighbours off the eastern…

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