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THE SEA FISHERIES
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attached to a number of stakes Set upright in the sand to
'
form a trap
opening towards the sea which
the sh enter on the incoming tide.
When the tide recedes
the sh are left high and- dry on the sand.
In many parts of the world the ancient cast net is Still
—
rn
use.
The net is so weighted that a dexterous throw
from the shoulder will make it open out and fall at on
.
water—a circular disc of netting whose weighted circum—
ference carries it quickly to the bottom with any sh over
which it may have fallen.
“By pulling carefully on a mpe
the weighted edges can be drawn slowly together over the
bottom so that the sh is completely ensnared in the net.
Along the Egyptian coast_shermen may be seen using
,
these cast nets for grey mullet which they stalk in the
shallow water.
Very often in the devising of nets advantage is taken of
some peculiarity in the habits of a sh, such as the drift nets
which are used for catching the fast—swimmingshoals of
herring or. mackerel.
The ”grey mullet is a great jumper
.
and will leap out of the water when it .meets an_bbstruction.
If a shoal of grey mullet be surrounded by-a seine great
numbers maybe seen making their escape by leaping Over
‘
the walls of -netting‘-.
In the eastern '
Mediterranean 3
net is used which besides presenting a vertical wall of
.
,
netting, has netting lying horizontally on the surface
supported on oating bamboos.
This-net
is= shot off the
'
’
_
stern-of_ a boat, which is rowed in a Complete circle so
that
“
a shoal of sh may be completely surrounded by a hanging
_
curtain…bf netting (Plate 101). The mullet immediately
_
jump ; but, instead of leaping over” the wall as they
,
'
'
intended, they nd themselves apping and splashmg on
_.
the horizontal oating “net on the outside,
shernien
"
row round and pick them up as they jump to their fate…
Ÿ
There is ‘a net used by the Japanese WhÏCh requires.
THE SEA FISHERIES
287
attached to a number of stakes Set upright in the sand to
'
form a trap
opening towards the sea which
the sh enter on the incoming tide.
When the tide recedes
the sh are left high and- dry on the sand.
In many parts of the world the ancient cast net is Still
—
rn
use.
The net is so weighted that a dexterous throw
from the shoulder will make it open out and fall at on
.
water—a circular disc of netting whose weighted circum—
ference carries it quickly to the bottom with any sh over
which it may have fallen.
“By pulling carefully on a mpe
the weighted edges can be drawn slowly together over the
bottom so that the sh is completely ensnared in the net.
Along the Egyptian coast_shermen may be seen using
,
these cast nets for grey mullet which they stalk in the
shallow water.
Very often in the devising of nets advantage is taken of
some peculiarity in the habits of a sh, such as the drift nets
which are used for catching the fast—swimmingshoals of
herring or. mackerel.
The ”grey mullet is a great jumper
.
and will leap out of the water when it .meets an_bbstruction.
If a shoal of grey mullet be surrounded by-a seine great
numbers maybe seen making their escape by leaping Over
‘
the walls of -netting‘-.
In the eastern '
Mediterranean 3
net is used which besides presenting a vertical wall of
.
,
netting, has netting lying horizontally on the surface
supported on oating bamboos.
This-net
is= shot off the
'
’
_
stern-of_ a boat, which is rowed in a Complete circle so
that
“
a shoal of sh may be completely surrounded by a hanging
_
curtain…bf netting (Plate 101). The mullet immediately
_
jump ; but, instead of leaping over” the wall as they
,
'
'
intended, they nd themselves apping and splashmg on
_.
the horizontal oating “net on the outside,
shernien
"
row round and pick them up as they jump to their fate…
Ÿ
There is ‘a net used by the Japanese WhÏCh requires.