One of the nice things of keeping a weblog is the possibility to respond to questions that many people may have in their head and only one will ask. In this case: what is a beam trawl? http://www.vliz.be/en/beamtrawl provides a nice definition: 'A beam trawl net is a fish net held open by a steal beam with two ‘shoes’ (two steel plates) attached at the ends. A concave-shaped net hangs behind the beam which retains the catch. A beam trawl is towed by a vessel over the seafloor and is mostly used to catch shrimps, flatfish or fish living close the seafloor.'
de boomkor die we gebruiken voor het onderzoek//the beam trawl we use (foto: I. de Boois) |
Voor het onderzoek uit één van de voorgaande blogs gebruiken we een 2 meter boomkor met een kettingmat (zie foto hieronder).
During this survey, we use an 8 meter beam trawl (see picture), with a number of chains. In the central and western North Sea we rig the gear with a flip-up rope, to prevent net damage by boulders. The boulders get stuck in the flip-up rope and won't enter the net.
The 2 meter beam trawl we refer to in http://beamtrawlsurvey.blogspot.com/2018/08/klein-kleiner-kleinstsmall-smaller.html is rigged with a chain mat (see picture below).
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