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Title Performance of a rope trawl in deep waters off north-west coast of India
 
Names Rao, S.V.S.
Subramonia Pillai, N.
Boopendranath, M.R.
Syed Abbas, M.
Date Issued 1994 (iso8601)
Abstract Design details of a newly developed 35 m rope trawl and the results of pre-feasibility
trials conducted from FORV Sagar Sampada during November 1992 in the Exclusive
Economic Zone off north west coast of India, are discussed in this paper. A total of 5.6 t
of finfish and cephalopods were landed during the fifteen trial fishing operations realising
an average catch rate of 396 kg h·1• The salient feature of the rope trawl is the substitution
of netting in the fore part of the trawl by ropes thereby reducing the drag which results
in fuel economy. The advantage of using rope trawl as a dual purpose trawl for both pelagic
and demersal fishing is also discussed briefly.
Genre Article
Identifier Fish Technol. 31(2): 127-132