Fishing net

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Fishing with a Cast net.
Fishing with a Cast net.
Fishing nets on a shrimp boat, Ostend, Belgium
Fishing nets on a shrimp boat, Ostend, Belgium
Fishermen in Bangladesh
Fishermen in Bangladesh

Types of fishing nets:

Cast net
A small round net with weights around which is thrown by the fisher.
Chinese fishing nets (of Kochi)
A net horizontally held by a large fixed structure and periodically lowered into the water.
Drift net
Gillnet
Seine (fishing) 
A large net that hangs vertically in the water by attaching weights along the bottom edge and floats along the top.
Stake net 
A form of net for catching salmon, consisting of a sheet of network stretched on stakes fixed into the ground, generally in rivers or where the sea ebbs and flows, for entangling and catching the fish.
Trammel 
A fishing net set vertically in the water with three layers. The inner layer is of a finer mesh than the outer layers.
Trawl 
A large net, conical in shape, towed along the sea bottom. See trawling.
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