Posts by Eduardo Cheis
Chronology
ca. 3000 bC The first evidences of fishing activities in Sesimbra date back do around 5000 years, as shown by the discovery of two stone fishing net weights unearthed during archeological works. Roman Empire Construction of a fish salting manufacturing unit in the center of Sesimbra’s bay. Export of fish throughout the Roman Empire proven […]
Fishing Creels
A fishing creel is a trap used to catch octopus, one of Sesimbra’s most famous species. The creel may assume various sizes and shapes. It has a hole through which the octopuses enter, and a pouch that serves to place the bait. Once the bait has been added, they are deployed into the water attached […]
Beach Seine
Beach seine or Arte Xávega is a kind of trawl fishing carried out from the beach, in which the net is fixed to a cable in the sand, and then carried out to sea by a small vessel, the “aiola”, which in a semicircular motion, deploys the net over fifty metres from the shore, and […]
Seine Purse
Seine fishing is the method used for most of the fish caught by Sesimbra’s fishing fleet. Aimed mainly at sardine, mackerel or scad, this fishing technique uses a net that is released into the sea forming a siege, suspended at the surface by buoys and held vertically by the cable.
Cuttlefish and Squid Fishing
Fishing with small pieces of lead, lined with plastic or cotton thread. Each has a crown of pins at one end and, on the opposite end, a small hole to hold the line, which rises to the fisherman’s hand, at the surface.
Gillnets
Nets are deployed into the water from a moving boat, suspended vertically by buoys distributed by the upper cable, and to the leaded cable, in the lower section. They may have different heights and are affixed to the bottom with anchors or stones at each of the extremities.
