Acoustic pingers - what does one look like?

Tom Hardy from Cornwall Wildlife Trust has kindly supplied a set of images to show exactly what the acoustic pingers used in the trials look like and how they are fitted to fishing gear - in this instance a range gill nets used by under 10m inshore vessels like the Go For It from Newlyn.

Jake Freethy's Go for It against the fish market in Newlyn.

Gear ready for shooting aboard the Newlyn netter Go For It

Pinger attahced to the gill net bridle.



Pinger on the net ready to be shot away.



The pinger in the process of being hauled aboard with monk nets

Acoustic pod and nets ready to be deployed