lautnusantara.com A wide variety of fishing gear is used. Fishing Gear (API) refers to the means, equipment, or other objects used to catch fish.

1. Encircling Nets (Jaring Lingkar)

Encircling Nets are a group of active fishing gear, typically rectangular nets consisting of wings, a body, equipped with floats, weights, headropes, footropes, with or without rings and purse lines. One part of the net functions as a cod-end. They are operated by encircling to trap schooling pelagic fish.

Purse seines (jaring lingkar bertali kerut) are abbreviated as PS and coded as 01.1. Small pelagic purse seine with one vessel refers to a purse seine operated by encircling schools of small pelagic fish using a single vessel.

2. Gillnets (Jaring Insang)

Gillnets are a group of active and passive fishing gear, consisting of rectangular nets equipped with floats, weights, headropes, and footropes (or without footropes). They are operated fixed, drifting, or encircling on the surface, mid-water, and bottom of the waters to intercept pelagic fish, demersal fish, and crustacean groups, catching them by entanglement and/or gilling.

Types of gillnets (code: 07.) include:

• Fixed Gillnets (GNS, code 07.1): These are gillnets equipped with anchors, operated stationary in the water.
• Drifting Gillnets (GND, code 07.2): These are gillnets with greater buoyancy than their sinking capacity, operated by drifting on the surface and in mid-water, and equipped with marker buoys.
• Combination Gillnets (GTN, code 07.6): These are gillnets that combine a gillnet section on the top and a trammel net section on the bottom, arranged vertically.

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3. Haul Seines (Jaring Tarik)

Haul Seines are a group of active fishing gear, consisting of conical-shaped nets made up of wings, a body, and a cod-end, equipped with floats, weights, headropes, footropes, and hauling ropes, and without net opening devices. They are operated by encircling demersal fish or schooling pelagic fish, then pulling them to a stationary/anchored vessel or to shore/beach via both the hauling ropes and the wings.

4. Hooks and Lines (Pancing)

Hooks and Lines are a group of active or passive fishing gear consisting of a line with or without hooks. Hook and line gear can be equipped with floats, weights, rods, or bait. They are operated on the surface, mid-water, or bottom of the waters, so that the target catch gets caught on the hook, generally for catching pelagic fish, demersal fish, and mollusks.

5. Other Fishing Gear (API Lainnya)

Other Fishing Gear refers to gear that, in terms of form, construction, and operation method, does not fall into the categories of encircling nets, haul seines, dredges, lift nets, falling/cast nets, gillnets, traps, and hooks and lines. Examples include: spears, handlines, arrows, push nets, scoop nets, muro ami, and pocongan.

• Scoop Nets (Seser): These are fishing gear made of fine netting/mosquito netting, triangular or circular in shape, equipped with a frame, operated on the seashore, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, swamps, and other water bodies in all Indonesian Fishery Management Areas (WPPNRIPD). They are used by pushing to catch milkfish fry, shrimp larvae, or eels, and can be equipped with a light as an aid.
• Pocongan (PBL, code 10.8): This is a fishing tool for lobster larvae, consisting of a pulling part made of sacks/canvas/paper/other media, allowing lobster larvae to attach to the media.

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