Division GEAR CODES
United Kingdom
| Fisheries agencies may indicate side and stern bottom and side and stern midwater trawls, as OTB-1 and OTB-2, and OTM-1 and OTM-2, respectively. | |
| Including jigging lines. | |
| Code LDV for dory operated line gears will be maintained for historical data purposes. | |
| This item includes: hand and landing nets, drive-in-nets, gathering by hand with simple hand implements with or without diving equipment, poisons and explosives, trained animals, electrical fishing. | |
| Gear categories | Standard abbreviation code |
|---|---|
| Surrounding nets | |
| With purse lines (purse seines) | PS |
| — One boat operated purse seines | PS1 |
| — Two boat operated purse seines | PS2 |
| Without purse lines (lampara) | LA |
| Seine nets | |
| Boat or vessel seines | SB/SV |
| — Danish seines | SDN |
| — Scottish seines | SSC |
| — Pair seines | SPR |
| Seine nets (not specifed) | SX |
| Trawls | |
| Pots | FPO |
| Bottom trawls | |
| — Beam trawls | TBB |
| — Otter trawlsf1 | OTB |
| — Pair trawls | PTB |
| — Nephrops trawls | TBN |
| — Shrimp trawls | TBS |
| — Bottom trawls (not specified) | TB |
| Midwater trawls | |
| — Otter trawls | OTM |
| — Pair trawls | PTM |
| — Shrimp trawls | TMS |
| — Midwater trawls (not specified) | TM |
| Otter twin trawls | OTT |
| Otter trawls (not specified) | OT |
| Pair trawls (not specified) | PT |
| Other trawls (not specified) | TX |
| Dredges | |
| Boat dredges | DRB |
| Hand dredges | DRH |
| Lift nets | |
| Portable lift nets | LNP |
| Boat operated lift nets | LNB |
| Shore operated stationary lift nets | LNS |
| Lift nets (not specified) | LN |
| Falling gear | |
| Cast nets | FCN |
| Falling Gear (not specified) | FG |
| Gillnets and entangling nets | |
| Set gillnets (anchored) | GNS |
| Drift nets | GND |
| Encircling gillnets | GNC |
| Fixed gillnets (on stakes) | GNF |
| Trammel nets | GTR |
| Combined gillnets-Trammel nets | GTN |
| Gillnets and entangling nets (not specified) | GEN |
| Gillnets (not specified) | GN |
| Traps | |
| Stationary uncovered pound-nets | FPN |
| Fyke nets | FYK |
| Stow nets | FSN |
| Barriers, fences, weirs, etc. | FWR |
| Aerial traps | FAR |
| Traps (not specified) | FIX |
| Hooks and lines | |
| Hand-lines and pole-lines (hand operated)f2 | LHP |
| Hand-lines and pole-lines (mechanized) | LHM |
| Set lines (longlines set) | LLS |
| Drifting longlines | LLD |
| Longlines (not specified) | LL |
| Trolling lines | LTL |
| Hooks and lines (not specified)f3 | LX |
| Grappling and wounding | |
| Harpoons | HAR |
| Harvesting machines | |
| Pumps | HMP |
| Mechanized dredges | HMD |
| Harvesting machines (not specified) | HMX |
| Miscellaneous gear f4 | MIS |
| Recreational fishing gear | RG |
| Gear not known or not specified | NK |
Annotations
Footnotes
- f1
-
Fisheries agencies may indicate side and stern bottom and side and stern midwater trawls, as OTB-1 and OTB-2, and OTM-1 and OTM-2, respectively.
- f2
-
Including jigging lines.
- f3
-
Code LDV for dory operated line gears will be maintained for historical data purposes.
- f4
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This item includes: hand and landing nets, drive-in-nets, gathering by hand with simple hand implements with or without diving equipment, poisons and explosives, trained animals, electrical fishing.