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IMPACT OF STAKE NETS ON THE RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF BACKWATERS OF KERALA
A variety of fishing nets have been developed since antiquity. Over thousands of years, local net fishing has been conducted using nets made with locally available material. Modern commercial net fishing, however, raise a number of issues including the sustainable development of fishery and environm...
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| Summary: | A variety of fishing nets have been developed since antiquity. Over thousands of years, local net fishing
has been conducted using nets made with locally available material. Modern commercial net fishing,
however, raise a number of issues including the sustainable development of fishery and environmental
concerns. Nets with smaller mesh catch undersized, un-marketable, targeted and un-targeted fish. Those
unwanted fish are thrown away as “waste”. Fishing industries are now beginning to develop nets with
larger mesh size to reduce such “waste”. Concern has also been raised about the damage which bottom
trawling inflicts upon seabed communities. On November 18, 2004, the United Nations General Assembly
urged nations to consider temporary bans on high seas bottom trawling.
Among the various gears, stake net is one of the major gears used along the backwaters of Kerala.
Confined entirely to the tidal backwaters, these nets constitute an important method of fish capture
from such areas. Owned mostly by members of the traditional fishermen, this activity provides part time
jobs for many. A stake net consists of a sheet of network stretched on stakes fixed into the ground,
generally in rivers or where the sea ebbs and flows, for entangling and catching the fish. |
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