Archive for the ‘PURSE SEINE FISHING’ Category

Purse Seine Vessels and Gear Efficiency

Enhance Purse Seine Vessels and Gear Efficiency – Effective Purse Seine Operation

In review of papers on purse seine gear and technology, the author proposed that purse seine efficiency can be defined by an increasing ability to land a given quantity of tuna in less time, or an increased catch potential in a given time period (one year). This increasing efficiency consists of increasing actual fishing time, minimizing in port turnarounds, increasing the speed with which tuna can be caught, loaded and frozen onboard and decreasing overhead costs. It was proposed that purse seine efficiency can be achieved by:

I. Adequate fishing power large deep net designed for fast pursing

  1. full complement of electronics for tuna school assessment (high and low frequency sonar, scientific grade echo sounders, (more…)

Fish Luring – Purse Seine Operation

FISH_LURING_SYSTEM_FOR_PURSE_SEINERS

This ‘Fish Luring System’ is being used in ‘Light boat’ of ‘Large-scale Purse Seine Fishery’.

Fish Luring Target Species

This system is being used for catching ‘Mackerel, Sardine, Hairtail, Squid, Filefish,Tuna Like Fish, etc’.Large-scale Purse Seine Fishery consist of  one Net Boat, two-three Light Boats, two-three Carriers’.Here Light boats have Aerial Lamps and Underwater Lamps to lure fishes near to sea surface. And these Light Boats have Sonars or Fish Finders (more…)

Purse seine and longline fishing gear and vessel efficiency

An examination of vessel, gear and operational details useful for fishery-specific effort standardization, including FAD-related gear and fishing strategies

By ; David G. Itano, Pelagic Fisheries Research Program, Honolulu, HawaiiESTHER (Efficiency of the Tuna Purse Seiners and Effective Effort).

pelagic_longline

The European Union funded 3 research project ESTHER (Efficiency of the Tuna Purse Seiners and Effective Effort) examined vessel and gear attributes of the EU purse seine fleets and conducted analyses and modeling to gauge the impact of various factors to fishing efficiency (Gaertner and Pallares 2002).. These factors were considered key technical improvements adopted by EU purse seiners that significantly increased vessel efficiency: (more…)

Purse seine fish loading systems – brailing system

Previous  purse seiner brailing method

Rapid loading of the catch is critical in the WCPO where sea surface temperatures (SST) are normally at or above 28°C. The older US style of brailing, as pictured in Figures 1 – 4 use a relatively lightweight brailer fitted with a long handle that was manually pushed down into the sacked up tuna.

purse seine hauling mackerel

This system was developed and introduced from the Eastern Pacific purse seine fishery where SSTs are much lower and set sizes were typically not as large. Brailing in this style loads approximately two mt per brailer, is relatively slow, therefore suitable for sets of less than ~ 100 – 125 mt. (more…)

Purse Seine Fishing Gear – Brailing System Equipment

Purse seine rail rollers speed up tuna brailing. Hydraulically driven, rubberized rail rollers have been used on Japanese group seiners for decades. The entire side of some vessels are equipped with these rollers which greatly speed the process of drying the net (sacking up) prior to brailing (Figure 3).

purse seine rail rollers speed up drying net

Figure 1. Note rail roller on port side of working deck below the gangway

On some vessels, swivelling pinch haulers assist the process by hauling sections of webbing to keep the net even during the drying process (Figure 2). On group seiners, the catch (more…)