Despite the fact hat longline fishing is a traditional and widespread fish capture method, few books describe in detail the principles and applications of longline fishing gear.

Longlinning has been written to provide all the information needed on the many different aspects of longline fishing. It deals the history of the technique, the basic capture principles and how they relate to fish behaviour, important target species, and provides technical descriptions of gear, vessels ad equipment and the different modes of operating longlines. A comparison with other methods of fishing is also...