FISHING EQUIPMENTS

FISHING EQUIPMENTS

Just as shoemakers own their professional equipment's and tools, Fishermen do likewise, together with many other professionals. On a typical fishing day, you would see canoons with different sizes, almost similar shapes, and different owners on the waters of the sea and along the coast.

It is very obvious and evident that a fisherman’s tool is his canoon and fishing net. It is interesting to learn that, there are more tools and equipments than just the normal canoon and fishing net we always see. Globally, all management systems have introduced some form of access and/use rights to fishery resources. This is also the case for the Common FisheriesPolicy(CFP),  which provides inter alia for the granting of national license  and quotas, the limitation of  “days at sea” for certain fisheries and various  measures to limit fleet capacity.  Although the basic mechanisms for CFP for allocating fishing right among the member states as proven to effective, in other respects the CFP  has  fallen short of its objectives, as its shown by the depleted conditions of many fish stocks and poor economic performance of some parts of the fleet. The current main objective of the CFP is to conserve resources in other to preserve the ecosystems and sustain the economic activities.

So we go on to get a bit of more education as we learn about some tools used in fishing. There is rarely a canoon without a paddle. That is basic to us all, I believe. There is the Fish finder, pliers, hooks, weight, scales etc