Jul 13, 2010 · The Contemporary Challenges of a Traditional Fishing Technique Tub-trawling can survive on Cape Cod. Maybe. I am a bottom longline fisherman. I commute to Wychmere Harbor in Harwich from West Barnstable, get in the boat and drive out to the grounds.

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Officially known as bottom longline, the local “tub trawl” gear is used to target spiny dogfish and groundfish. This type of fixed gear consists of a weighted line that rests on the bottom with lines at each end that extend to buoys on the surface.

A tub trawl consists of a long line with several baited hooks spread out along its length. The line sits on the bottom and is attached at either end to buoys which float at the surface. Nineteenth-century halibut tub trawls could be longer than two miles and often held several hundred hooks each, typically baited with herring, mackerel, and ...

Trawls are designed to capture and trap the target species inside the codend as the net is hauled through the water. Midwater trawl. Trawl nets vary in length, mesh size, material, and tow speed depending on target species, but most are constructed of four mesh panels sewn together.

Eor otter trawls but yields excellent catches of groundfish, particularly cod (Gadus morhua) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), to the line trawlers. When the vessel reaches the fishing ground the gear is set out.

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TREMONT – Wendell Seavey, a lobster fisherman and author of “Working the Sea: Misadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life Lessons from a Maine Lobsterfisherman,” recently described the fishing method of tub-trawling, which his father practiced.

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