Division

United Kingdom

GEAR CODES

Gear Categories	Standard Abbreviation Code
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.
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	SB
Boat or vessel seines	SV
Danish seines	SDN
Scottish seines	SSC
Pair seines	SPR
Seine nets (not specifed)	SX
Trawls
Pots	FPO
Bottom trawls
Beam trawls	TBB
Otter trawls^f1	OTB
Pair trawls	PTB
Nephrops trawls	TBN
Shrimp trawls	TBS
Bottom trawls (not specified)	TB
Midwater trawls
Otter trawls	OTM
Pair trawls	PTM
Shirmp 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
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
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
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: 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.