Reducing the risk of collisions with fishing vessels

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Reducing the risk of collisions with fishing vessel - A guide for Masters and their Bridge teams. Close quarter situations with fishing vessels and/or their associated fishing gear remain common. This often results in loss of life, in addition to any damage to fishing gear or boats.

Contents
Reducing the risk of collisions with fishing vessels
The nature of fishing
How things should be
How things often are
Fishing gear and fishing methods
- Mobile or towed gear
- Encircling gear
- Passive mobile gear
- Fixed or static gear
Mobile or towed gear
- Single boat trawling or otter trawling
- Pair trawling
- Beam trawling
- Dredging
Encircling gear
- Purse seines
- Anchor seine / Scottish seine / Pair seine
Passive mobile gear
- Surface drift nets
- Drifting long lines
- Squid jigging
Static or fixed gear
- Fixed longlines
-Baited pots or traps
- Fixed gill nets / tangle nets
Lessons learnt from the incidents