{"id":76,"date":"2023-10-09T05:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/uncategorized\/purse-seine-fishing\/"},"modified":"2023-10-09T06:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T01:04:22","slug":"purse-seine-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/upsc\/purse-seine-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Purse Seine Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Purse Seine fishing is <strong>used in the open ocean to target dense schools of single-species pelagic (midwater) fish like tuna and mackerel.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A <strong>vertical net \u2018curtain<\/strong>\u2019 is used to surround the school of fish, the bottom of which is then drawn together to enclose the fish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Purse-Seine-Fishing.webp\" alt=\"Purse Seine Fishing\" class=\"wp-image-28468\" style=\"width:637px;height:358px\" width=\"637\" height=\"358\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Purse seine fishing is popular on India\u2019s western coasts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is linked to concerns about the decreasing stock of small, pelagic shoaling fish such as sardines, mackerel, anchovies and trevally on the western coasts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The scientific community argues that climatic conditions, including the El Nino phenomenon, are responsible for the declining catch of such fish in the last 10 years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>However, fishermen using traditional methods have placed the blame squarely on the rise in purse seine fishing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Advantages of this method<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Purse-seine fishing in open water is <strong>generally considered to be an efficient<\/strong> form of fishing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It has <strong>no contact with the seabed <\/strong>and can have low levels of by catch.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It can also be used to <strong>catch fish congregating <\/strong>around fish aggregating devices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is used in the open ocean to target dense schools of single-species pelagic (midwater) fish like tuna and mackerel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disadvantages: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Purse seining is a <strong>non-selective fishing method<\/strong> that <strong>captures everything<\/strong> that it surrounds, including sea turtles and marine mammals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-76_8615dd-9f .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-76_8615dd-9f 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