©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation
©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Pound nets are passive, stationary gear used for live entrapment of fish species. The gear is composed of fiber netting. Floating pound nets use floating toggles and buoys at the surface and are held taught below the surface using anchors.
A pound net consists of: (1) a net body or crib where the entrapment takes place, (2) a least one mesh heart that helps funnel fish into the crib, and (3) a straight leader or hedging which leads fish toward the crib. Fish swimming along the shore are turned toward the crib by the hedging, guided into the heart, and into the crib where they are removed.
(Description from Maryland Dept of Natural Resources)
| Dataset Name | PI-Supplied Description | PI-Supplied Name |
|---|---|---|
| Species counts from control and gear manipulation trials to reduce bycatch of juvenile fish carried out on fishing vessels in the Northeast Consortium (NEC) in the Southwest coastal Maine from 2011-2012 (NEC_ProjDev project) | The nets used in this study were floating pound nets, using floating toggles and buoys at the surface and held taught below the surface using anchors at the corners. | Floating Pound Net |