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4.2.14 Crafts and gears employed in reservoirs
The presence of underwater obstacles restricts the use of active year in reservoirs. Hence, mostly passive gears are used. Simple gill nets, entangling type of gill net (Rangoon net) shore seines are the major gears. Long lines, hand lines, pole and line, cast nets and dipnets are also used. Two-boat mid-water trawling has been recommended for commercial species and single two-boatbottom trawling for eradication of uneconomic species of fishes in large reservoirs like Gandhinagar and Hirakud. Coracle, Plankābuilt flat bottomed canoe, dinghy, dugout canoes, rafts made of discarded old tyres, logs, used canetc., are the commonly used crafts in Indian reservoirs. |
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