Inland Fisheries

Sharp projectiles

Instruments with sharp points are used, thereby catching the fish in a damaged or injured condition.

1. Spears are simplest form of sharp projectiles and they range from single pronged stick to many pronged barbed ones.
2. Fish plummets: Metal weights with barbed points called fish plummets pierce the flatfish over the bottom as they are dropped down.
3. Fish combs provided with prongs which pierce the fish when pressed into the mud are mainly used in eel fishery.
4. Bows and arrows too constitute a primitive gear which is used for the capture of whales.
5. Harpoons