footrope

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• Sailors need to balance carefully on the footrope while working on the sails high above the deck.

• The size of those gaps depends on trawl dimensions, bottom contact, and the length of drop chains connecting the ground gear to the footrope.

  Academic text (1998)

• The change in drop chain length could have affected catch rates by narrowing the escape route between the ground gear and footrope.

  Academic text (1998)

• Raising the footrope sufficiently high off the bottom to avoid snapper would result in missing many shrimp.

  Academic text (1994)

• Most juvenile snappers rose above the trawl footrope and fell back into the trawl.

  Academic text (1994)

• The most obvious and direct way fish escape trawl capture is through gaps between the ground gear and bottom or between the ground gear and footrope.

  Academic text (1998)

• The other change to the trawl was a reduction in the number of links in the 9 mm drop chains attaching the fishing line to the footrope from 5 links to 2 links.

  Academic text (1998)

• Most observed vessels utilized a transducer, or net sounder, placed on either the headrope or footrope to determine the depth and opening of the net.

  Academic text (1994)

• The sampling gear is an "eastern" otter trawl with a 25.3 m headrope and 34.1 m footrope.

  Academic text (1992)

• The headrope, 23 m (75 feet) long, and the footrope, 34 m (110 feet) long, were constructed of rope-wrapped wire cable and 76 mm (3 inches) rubber discs.

  Academic text (1990)

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