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THE SEAS
catching the menhaden, which is a close ally of the herring,
and the.mackerel.
A shoal of sh is surrounded in the
same way as with the pilchard seine, but the net is made
so that a rope can pull the bottom edge of the net together
like the mouth of a purse so that the sh are completely
enclosed in a basket of netting.
LINING
'
Fishing with hook and line is a method used extensively
in some parts for cod.
The cod—sheries of the Newfoundland Banks are world famous and no more Vivid description
of the arduous life of the shermen in those waters can be
found than in Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s. Captains Courageous.
But the actual method of shing by hand line, given in
that book, has been largely superseded now by the use of
long lines carrying anythingùp to 3,000 hooks each.
'
The vessels employed are mostly sturdy sailing craft,
and each carries eight small rowing boats known as dories.
When the banks are reached the dories are put out to lay
their lines. -The lines are baited- with squid, herring, or
'
capelin, and are each fty fathoms long with about ninety -
hooks.
Nine of these lines are coiled in a tub, and each
dory carries four of the tubs.
When shing, all- the
lines…are often joined end to 'end, making up one long
line 3,600 yards long…
In this way the eight dories of one
'
shing schooner may lay as much as sixteen miles of line.
The hooks are attached at intervals along the line to short
snood_s about two feet
These lines may be set in
the morning, when they are hauled up three hours after—
watds, or in the afternoon when they are allowed to remain
down all night.
.
—
'
,
The shing is carried out along the Newfoundland coast
'
and on the
Newfoundland “ Banks” (Plate 102), in depths
_
betw‘een fteen and 130 fathoms.
"
THE SEAS
catching the menhaden, which is a close ally of the herring,
and the.mackerel.
A shoal of sh is surrounded in the
same way as with the pilchard seine, but the net is made
so that a rope can pull the bottom edge of the net together
like the mouth of a purse so that the sh are completely
enclosed in a basket of netting.
LINING
'
Fishing with hook and line is a method used extensively
in some parts for cod.
The cod—sheries of the Newfoundland Banks are world famous and no more Vivid description
of the arduous life of the shermen in those waters can be
found than in Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s. Captains Courageous.
But the actual method of shing by hand line, given in
that book, has been largely superseded now by the use of
long lines carrying anythingùp to 3,000 hooks each.
'
The vessels employed are mostly sturdy sailing craft,
and each carries eight small rowing boats known as dories.
When the banks are reached the dories are put out to lay
their lines. -The lines are baited- with squid, herring, or
'
capelin, and are each fty fathoms long with about ninety -
hooks.
Nine of these lines are coiled in a tub, and each
dory carries four of the tubs.
When shing, all- the
lines…are often joined end to 'end, making up one long
line 3,600 yards long…
In this way the eight dories of one
'
shing schooner may lay as much as sixteen miles of line.
The hooks are attached at intervals along the line to short
snood_s about two feet
These lines may be set in
the morning, when they are hauled up three hours after—
watds, or in the afternoon when they are allowed to remain
down all night.
.
—
'
,
The shing is carried out along the Newfoundland coast
'
and on the
Newfoundland “ Banks” (Plate 102), in depths
_
betw‘een fteen and 130 fathoms.
"