THE SEA FISHERIES
283.
buoy.
The vessel,- which 'is motor driven of a small'
steamer, now goes down tide paying out this warp until
it is all out.
The net is now putoverboard and the ship
sails round in a semicircle paying out the other warp until it
has returned to the anchored buoy: The two ropes are then
—
taken on board and the net is hauled in by a special winch.
_
It is found that with this net the sh caught are in much
better condition than those caught by traWls.
In fact
the plaice are generally in quite a lively condition and are
kept alive on-board in tanks by Danish shetmen, amongst
whom the net has been in use for many years.
This seine-is also used for catchinghaddock, but in this
case the,wings of the net are generally shorter than those
of the plaice Seines. '
The pilchard seine was 8. net used off the Cornish coast
for catchingpikhard in the days when this shery ourished.
.
When a shoal was sighted. by special watchers or “ hewerS "
from prominent points on the coast the shermen rowed
round it paying out the net as they went.
This is very
similar to a drift net, and when the circle is completed the
pilchard are
within a wall of netting.
This
circle of netting is then towed slow1ÿ towards the shore
until the weighted foot-rop'eis on the ground.
The sh
are
thus cooped up without any way of escape and the
shermen can remove themat their leisure by means
of a
smaller seine known as a tuck net. This netis very deep
_
and when the..sh
sûrrounded the bottom edge of the
net is drawn towards the surface so
as to form a bottom
and the pilchardare' then
out in baskets.
When a
very large shoal has been encirCled in the pilchard Seine
the process of removing them in the tuck net has been known
_to take several days.
A tuck net is also used in inshore
waters for catching Sprat.
'_
.
'
_
,
_
The purse seine is a net used extenswely in America for
283.
buoy.
The vessel,- which 'is motor driven of a small'
steamer, now goes down tide paying out this warp until
it is all out.
The net is now putoverboard and the ship
sails round in a semicircle paying out the other warp until it
has returned to the anchored buoy: The two ropes are then
—
taken on board and the net is hauled in by a special winch.
_
It is found that with this net the sh caught are in much
better condition than those caught by traWls.
In fact
the plaice are generally in quite a lively condition and are
kept alive on-board in tanks by Danish shetmen, amongst
whom the net has been in use for many years.
This seine-is also used for catchinghaddock, but in this
case the,wings of the net are generally shorter than those
of the plaice Seines. '
The pilchard seine was 8. net used off the Cornish coast
for catchingpikhard in the days when this shery ourished.
.
When a shoal was sighted. by special watchers or “ hewerS "
from prominent points on the coast the shermen rowed
round it paying out the net as they went.
This is very
similar to a drift net, and when the circle is completed the
pilchard are
within a wall of netting.
This
circle of netting is then towed slow1ÿ towards the shore
until the weighted foot-rop'eis on the ground.
The sh
are
thus cooped up without any way of escape and the
shermen can remove themat their leisure by means
of a
smaller seine known as a tuck net. This netis very deep
_
and when the..sh
sûrrounded the bottom edge of the
net is drawn towards the surface so
as to form a bottom
and the pilchardare' then
out in baskets.
When a
very large shoal has been encirCled in the pilchard Seine
the process of removing them in the tuck net has been known
_to take several days.
A tuck net is also used in inshore
waters for catching Sprat.
'_
.
'
_
,
_
The purse seine is a net used extenswely in America for