Trawl Ground Gear Setup (1989)

Learn about how trawl ground gears are constructed and why different types of ground gear are used.
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Learn about the correct rigging and maintenance necessary to keep a trawl performing at its optimum. This is a video from our archives that is still as relevant to trawl fishermen and fishery administrators today as it was in the 1980s.

Video footage originally shot on analogue VHS and U-matic video tape in 4:3 aspect and presented here in widescreen 16:9 aspect.

Written by: Trevor Egett
Narrated by John Thirlwell
Edited by Garton Film and Video, Hull
Produced by: Sea Fish Industry Authority and the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen.
©Sea Fish Industry Authority 1989

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