There are a variety of
fishing gears used in St. Georges Bay. The gears used depend
on what sort of species is being caught in a particular
area. The following contains descriptions of some of these
gears. These description and pictures were taken from
Underwater
world: Atlantic Fishing
Methods and Sea, Salt &
Sweat: A Story of Nova Scotia and the vast Atlantic
Fisheries. Both of these
are cited in the DFO reference
list.
Lobster
trap
Snow Crab
trap
Gillnet
Longline
Danish and Scottish
Seining
Otter
Trawling
