流刺網(gillnetting)是一種捕魚方法,主要用於捕撈洄游性魚類。流刺網使用一層或多層塑料絲織成的長方形網片,一般會將多張網片結合在一起,上緣繫多個海綿塑膠所製的浮子,下端配附鉛製沉子,垂直張開設於接近海平面附近的位置,等待魚類游入而被網目纏住。因為網片會隨海流移動,而且被纏住的魚像刺一樣掛在網上,故稱「流刺網」。
流刺網的殺傷力很大,大型流刺網往往由大、中、小網目的三層網子所構成,不論是大魚、小魚都將全部落網,因而容易造成生態浩劫。因此各國陸續禁用流刺網捕魚。
參考資料
外部連結
- Video: Gillnets in Operation
- Video: Gillnetting the Copper River Delta, Alaska (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
- Video: Tangle Net Fishing on the Columbia River (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
- Manual on estimation of selectivity for gillnet and longline gears in abundance surveys - report for Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, 2000.
- http://www.seawatch.org/position_papers/gillnet.php (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
- Puget Sound Salmon Commission (WSDAg) bycatch study (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
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