Shrimp Net Close Up

by Sandi OReilly

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Shrimp Net Close Up

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Sandi OReilly

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Photograph - Photography

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Touring Calabash,North Carolina, which is a major seafood town along the North Carolina Coast, we visited a shrimp boat or a trawler type boat. These are trawler nets and were so huge I was interested capturing their size and design. I sat on the dock shooting up to capture this image. This particular boat was a fairly large shrimping boat and part of the fleet in Calabash.

A trawl is a large net, conical in shape, designed to be towed along the sea bottom. The trawl is pulled through the water by one or more boats, called trawlers or draggers. The activity of pulling the trawl through the water is called trawling or dragging.

The vertical opening of a trawl net is created using flotation on the upper edge ("floatline") and weight on the lower edge ("footrope") of the net mouth. The configuration of the footrope varies based on the expected bottom shape. The more uneven the bottom, the more robust the footrope configuration must be to prevent net damage. This is used to catch shrimp, shell fish, cod, scallops and many others. Trawls are funnel shaped nets that have a closed off tail where the fish are collected and is open on the top end as the mouth.

Photography By Sandi O'Reilly, All Rights Reserved and Copyrighted. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me through FAA's email service, glad to help.

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July 26th, 2013

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