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twenty-ve to thirty boats and I 50 to 200 men to look
after it.
This is a huge bag net 900 feet long with a mouth
250 feet wide and 125 feet deep; the wings of this net
which stretch out on either side in front of the mouth may
be as much as 3,000 feet in length.
It is used for catching
the yellow—tail or amber—sh.
'
‘
Hand—Iming is a common'practice among inshore sher—
men, and long lines on the same style as those used in the
cod sheries are also employed.
Lines may also be set in
the sand at low-water mark which are covered by the rising
_
.
tide and canbe-taken up
when the water has again receded.
Many sh such as mackerel and pollack can be caught by
trailing a Shining spinner behind a boat, and one man can
operate as many as four lines.
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WHALE FISHERIES
.
_
-
Whale hUnting has been popularior many centuries, but
probably the rst real Whaling industry was founded
by the
Basques of— southern
France and
northern
Spain.
This shery was situated in the Bay of Bis0ay,
and was started in the. tenth century when the Atlantic
Right Whale, or Biscay Whale, was the object of pursuit.
the tenth to the sixteenth centuries the shery was
centred round the-towns of Bayonne, Biarritz, St. _Ïean'de
Luz, and San Sebastian and from here the rest of .Europe
was supplied with whalebone and oil.
.
The whole history of the whale sheries-has been one long
story of extinction through man’s want of thought for the
'
future, and by the sixteenth century the.Biscay Whale
becoming very
and possibly shyer, and the
.
Basques had to go farther aeld in their chase‘, often Voyag_
ing as far as the coasts of Newfoundland.
,
About the sixteenth century the existence of the Green_
land whale became known. and Europeans turned their
THE SEAS
'
twenty-ve to thirty boats and I 50 to 200 men to look
after it.
This is a huge bag net 900 feet long with a mouth
250 feet wide and 125 feet deep; the wings of this net
which stretch out on either side in front of the mouth may
be as much as 3,000 feet in length.
It is used for catching
the yellow—tail or amber—sh.
'
‘
Hand—Iming is a common'practice among inshore sher—
men, and long lines on the same style as those used in the
cod sheries are also employed.
Lines may also be set in
the sand at low-water mark which are covered by the rising
_
.
tide and canbe-taken up
when the water has again receded.
Many sh such as mackerel and pollack can be caught by
trailing a Shining spinner behind a boat, and one man can
operate as many as four lines.
—
'
WHALE FISHERIES
.
_
-
Whale hUnting has been popularior many centuries, but
probably the rst real Whaling industry was founded
by the
Basques of— southern
France and
northern
Spain.
This shery was situated in the Bay of Bis0ay,
and was started in the. tenth century when the Atlantic
Right Whale, or Biscay Whale, was the object of pursuit.
the tenth to the sixteenth centuries the shery was
centred round the-towns of Bayonne, Biarritz, St. _Ïean'de
Luz, and San Sebastian and from here the rest of .Europe
was supplied with whalebone and oil.
.
The whole history of the whale sheries-has been one long
story of extinction through man’s want of thought for the
'
future, and by the sixteenth century the.Biscay Whale
becoming very
and possibly shyer, and the
.
Basques had to go farther aeld in their chase‘, often Voyag_
ing as far as the coasts of Newfoundland.
,
About the sixteenth century the existence of the Green_
land whale became known. and Europeans turned their