Fishing gear

Description

Identification of the different gear used in capture fisheries and their functional capacity.

This applies to "Active" gear like pelagic trawls, purse seines, dredges, as well as to "Passive" gears such as hooks, drift nets, fixed nets, pots, and traps.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 7 occupations
  • Optional in 1 occupations
  • Total: 8 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 6 (Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers)

Essential for

  • Fisheries deckhand
    Fisheries deckhands work on fishing vessels where they carry out fishing related activities. They undertake a wide range of fishing and maritime work on land and at sea, such…
  • Deep-sea fishery worker
    Deep-sea fishery workers operate on board fishing vessels to catch deep-sea fish for sale or delivery. They use equipment such as rods and nets to catch deep-sea fish according…
  • Boatswain
    Boatswains organise the crew on deck and at the fishing hold to execute the orders received from a superior. They coordinate the operations of maintenance, manoeuvres, assembly and…
  • Fisheries master
    Fisheries masters plan, manage and execute the activities of fishing vessels inshore, coastal and offshore waters. They direct and control the navigation. Fisheries masters can ope…
  • Fisheries observer
    Fisheries observers record and report on fishing activity and the level of compliance and enforcement of conservation measures in force in the work area by controlling the vessel's…
  • Fishing net maker
    Fishing net makers make and assemble fishing net gear and carry out reparation and maintenance, as directed by the drawings and/or traditional methods. Other titles The following j…
  • Fisheries boatmaster
    Fisheries boatmasters operate fishing vessels in coastal waters performing operations at the deck and engine. They control the navigation as well as capture and conservation of fis…

Optional for

  • Water-based aquaculture worker
    Water-based aquaculture workers carry out manual activities in the ongrowing processes of cultured aquatic organisms in water-based suspended systems (floating or submerged structu…

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Last updated on February 18, 2026

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