Le ramendage des filets de peche

Repairing fishing nets involves mending nets that have suffered damage. This work is done directly on board the trawler or in the boat hangar. Among the subjects dealt with in works on fishing nets published in France up to now, fishing net repair has only been briefly addressed due to the apparent simplicity of this activity, particularly for gillnets. However, the development of trawling and the changes in shape that trawls have undergone in general have increased the difficulties of repairing these nets. These difficulties have been and are still met as they arise by technicians in net rigging factories or by fishermen themselves. However, problems arise, as we have witnessed, not only in daily operations, but also during training courses for young lieutenants and fishing boat captains. We undertook this study on fishing net repair mainly to help, insofar as possible, resolve these problems. We wished to make the results of this study to be as accessible as possible to amateur fishermen, to qualified professionals and to those in training. We therefore used the same methodology in our presentation of the various operations as we used in our coursebook on net repair in 22 lessons in December 1958 designed for net repair instructors in maritime training schools. It is our hope that the dissemination of rigging procedures described in this study, particularly those used for trawls, such as reinforced-edge trawls, as well as procedures for making square corners will help standardise net rigging methods. (unverified OCR)