TLE LESSON 2 Fishing Gear Vocabulary˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆

Flashcards for reviewing different types of fishing gear based on lecture notes.

Spear or Sibat

A thin, long, straight metal blade with a barb, thrown by hand at the target fish.

Snare or Silo

A hand-manipulated fishing instrument made of a running knot or noose tied to a tip of a pole.

Scoop or Bitay

A fishing instrument made of bamboo slot webbings in an oval, half-coved shape, with or without a handle. Fish are captured by dipping.

Cover Pot or Talakeb

A cylindrical device made of bamboo splits with two openings, a small one on top and a wider one at the bottom, operated by hand.

Harpoon or Panibat

A pointed instrument with barbed blades detachable from the handle and either thrown by hand or discharged from a gun.

Handline

A fishing device made of a bamboo pole with a baited-barb hook, dropped into the water to wait for a fish to bite.

Barricades or Saplad

An enclosure in a natural fish area made with materials like stones, mud, weeds, banana stalks, wooden trunks, etc., to prevent fish from escaping.

Fish Corral or Baklad

A barrier constructed with bamboo or chicken wire, set along the natural path of fish.

Filter Net or Saplad

A conical bag net made of sinamay or cotton netting fixed in flowing water.

Hoop Net

A funnel-like net bag constructed over circular hoops.

Lift Net or Salambao

A square or rectangular net manipulated in rivers by persons from four bamboo posts.

Cast Net

A cone-shaped cotton netting with load weight around the base and a retrieving line, cast in waist-deep water to capture fish.

Otter Trawl

A conical net with mouths flanked by wings, kept open by doors, and trawled on water to catch fish.

Gill Net or Paanod

A curtain-like net composed of one or more rectangular nets made of fine nylon or cotton twine, used to capture fish by entangling their gills.