Publisher's Synopsis
This manual, a title in the FAO Fishing Manual series, provides and explanation of general calculation principles, design procedures and test methods, to enable fishing gear designers and technologists, teachers and fisherment to solve problems in design, research and fishing operations. It avoids higher mathematics and succeeds in simplifying description of complex design and testing procedures. The knowlede here imparted can help to refine existing gear methods and introduce new ones to the benefit of fisheries in developed and undeveloped countries.
