- Fence Mesh
- 358 mesh panel fence
- Temporary Fence
- Workshop Fence
- Wave Fence
- Frame Fence
- Welded Wire Mesh
- Welded Wire Mesh
- Holland Wire Mesh
- Holland Wire Mesh
- PE Powder
- Polyethylene Powder
- Marine quality mesh
- Lobster Traps
- lobster trap wire
- Crab trap wire
- Hexagonal netting
- Hexagonal Netting - GBW
- Hexagonal Netting - GAW
- Hexagonal Netting - VC
- PVC Glued Wire
- PVC Glued wire
- Gabion Mesh
- Welded Gabion
- Gabions
- Steel Grating
- Steel Grating
- Quarry Screen Mesh
- Quarry Screen Mesh
- Bailing Wire
- Single Loop Bale Ties
- Double loop bale ties(quick link) Auto-Tie Baling Wire
- Double loop tie wire
- Invisible cover plate
- Decorative manhole cover
- Invisible cover plate
HOW TO MAKE VARIOUS TYPES OF TRAPS AND POTS
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Many types of fish and other aquatic animals have been taken with simple traps and pots for hundreds of years.
Of the main types of trap (see Chapter 1), this manual will concentrate on enclosed traps and pots.
HIDING PLACES OR HABITAT TRAPS
You can create artificial shelters and hiding places to attract and concentrate fish by placing bundles of branches, sticks or brush in the water. This method was probably used by ancient peoples and is still used in some areas of Europe, Africa and Asia. In more recent times, artificial reefs made from old car bodies, old motor tyres, concrete blocks, sunken vessels, etc. have been constructed to provide hiding places that concentrate fish. Floating devices for fish aggregating are sometimes used to concentrate commercial pelagic fish.
You can make these traps simply by tying branches, sticks, brush etc. into bundles and either placing them flat or upright on the bottom or suspending them in the water. Fish and crustaceans sheltering in the brush trap can be caught by quickly lifting the bundles from the water. The bundles can be put in the centre of a woven basket to catch fish that try to escape when the trap is lifted. Alternatively, you can put a dip net under the bundles while you are lifting them (Figure 3a, p. 3). Brush traps can be set in long rows or on longlines for easy hauling.
Eels and other long thin fish can be caught by setting tubes for them to use as shelter. Such tubes are often closed at one end and you can make them from bamboo, hollow logs, steel, plastic or earthenware piping, etc. (Figure 3b, p. 3). They are usually tied into groups of two. Bait can be placed inside the tubes to attract the eels or fish. When lifting the tubes, you must take care that the eels do not escape. In some places divers seal the ends before the tubes are lifted.
Traditionally, unglazed earthenware pots were used in the Mediterranean and Asia to catch octopus. However, you can use other materials, including plastic, steel or earthenware piping, old motor tyres and empty large mollusc shells. Octopus will enter almost any receptacle that provides shelter (Figures 3c and 3d, p. 3).
Further details on making and setting octopus pots and traps are covered later in this chapter.
Simple barriers made from stone or wood were probably one of the first types of trap used by prehistoric peoples. Many such barrier traps (fish screens, labyrinth traps, corrals) are still used today throughout the world. Each area has its own particular designs for permanent barrier traps, based on the types of fish in that area, their behaviour and migration and the area being fished. These traps will not be considered further in this manual, but the design of a simple arrowhead trap is given in Figure 7 (p. 6).
These traps are normally constructed with a long arm or leader, usually from the shore outwards, with an arrowhead-shaped trap on the outer end. The design of this trap varies widely in its complexity according to the species of fish being targeted and their movements.