'
74
CHANGES IN BOATS OF LINERS.
…
..
‘
Which each boat has 100, are 60 yards long, and 18 yards deep,
?
'
and they are made of cotton, with 83 rows to a yard, and after
.
.
two years’ wear, the shrinkage gives 36 in a yard. instead of -'
'
_
manual hauling, there was rst the improvement of a net
hauler (see Fig. adj oining)and lastly the same worked by steam.
The gradually increasing size of the boat rendered long hand—
nets necessary for capturing stray shes over the gunWale.
Instead of baskets, boxes have been used for the shes for
nearly a quarter of a century, the box, indeed, making
—_
appearance
with the trawls and increased facility in disposing
”
of the shes.— Finally, in the most advanced towns steam—linerS ”
' _
have largely increased.
,
_
It is interesting to notice-the parallelism in the increase of
.
the nets and hooks, for while no one brings forward the enormous
_.
increase of the nets as proof of the decadence of the heu—ing, it
-
_
is otherwiSe with the increase of hooks, which, for instance, in
_
_
_
the Reports of the Fishery Board, is held to prove the diminu—
,
_
tion
white shes in our seas, and the call for restrictive
Changes have occurred in both groups (herrings
and white shes), but they are apparently not of a kind to be
'
dealt with in the manner just mentioned.
'
_
._
_
.,
’
'
THE PRESENT STATE or THE LINE AND TRAWL FISHERIEs
_1N RELATION TO THE FISHING—GROUNDS AND THE FrsnEsl. _
1
In 1884, under the head of ‘ General Remarks,’ as careful a”
,
_
'.
survey of the situation of the sheries in connection with both
line-shing and trawlshing was drawn
In reading over
-
at the present time the position does not seem
to have been misunderstood; indeed, there is little at. variance
:
with the condition as now shown by fteen-years’ experiments
'
and observations.
Amongst
remarks it is stated '
that
'. '
‘
-‘steam-trawlers at present can only sh protably within a
1
Vide, the-Author’s ‘Brief sketch of the Scottish Fisheries, 1882—1892,"
_
_
Dundee,
_
.
'
.
_
_
?
Vide Report of the Royal Conwüssionçrs, pp. 377—880,
'
—
74
CHANGES IN BOATS OF LINERS.
…
..
‘
Which each boat has 100, are 60 yards long, and 18 yards deep,
?
'
and they are made of cotton, with 83 rows to a yard, and after
.
.
two years’ wear, the shrinkage gives 36 in a yard. instead of -'
'
_
manual hauling, there was rst the improvement of a net
hauler (see Fig. adj oining)and lastly the same worked by steam.
The gradually increasing size of the boat rendered long hand—
nets necessary for capturing stray shes over the gunWale.
Instead of baskets, boxes have been used for the shes for
nearly a quarter of a century, the box, indeed, making
—_
appearance
with the trawls and increased facility in disposing
”
of the shes.— Finally, in the most advanced towns steam—linerS ”
' _
have largely increased.
,
_
It is interesting to notice-the parallelism in the increase of
.
the nets and hooks, for while no one brings forward the enormous
_.
increase of the nets as proof of the decadence of the heu—ing, it
-
_
is otherwiSe with the increase of hooks, which, for instance, in
_
_
_
the Reports of the Fishery Board, is held to prove the diminu—
,
_
tion
white shes in our seas, and the call for restrictive
Changes have occurred in both groups (herrings
and white shes), but they are apparently not of a kind to be
'
dealt with in the manner just mentioned.
'
_
._
_
.,
’
'
THE PRESENT STATE or THE LINE AND TRAWL FISHERIEs
_1N RELATION TO THE FISHING—GROUNDS AND THE FrsnEsl. _
1
In 1884, under the head of ‘ General Remarks,’ as careful a”
,
_
'.
survey of the situation of the sheries in connection with both
line-shing and trawlshing was drawn
In reading over
-
at the present time the position does not seem
to have been misunderstood; indeed, there is little at. variance
:
with the condition as now shown by fteen-years’ experiments
'
and observations.
Amongst
remarks it is stated '
that
'. '
‘
-‘steam-trawlers at present can only sh protably within a
1
Vide, the-Author’s ‘Brief sketch of the Scottish Fisheries, 1882—1892,"
_
_
Dundee,
_
.
'
.
_
_
?
Vide Report of the Royal Conwüssionçrs, pp. 377—880,
'
—