. Preliminary report on the fish and fisheries of Ontario [microform]. Fishes; Fisheries; Poissons; Pêche commerciale. I" LCAOER OfollO rodi lona' ;.;:..^-xzjikLv;.^....^>^:| • t H w Co* cma ar*Mi. J fUNNiL nuT HAUL MAXl N C«tB ST*K. 9 ftACASTRtKRI STAKL Pound-Net. ^250 to , and five men are to wcrk three nets. A boat of peculiar form is generally , .schooner-rigged with wide square stern, and plenty of beam so as to permit of lifting the pockets or cribs of the pound. 1'hoy must be able to take a large load of fish and yet have little draught. A speci
. Preliminary report on the fish and fisheries of Ontario [microform]. Fishes; Fisheries; Poissons; Pêche commerciale. I" LCAOER OfollO rodi lona' ;.;:..^-xzjikLv;.^....^>^:| • t H w Co* cma ar*Mi. J fUNNiL nuT HAUL MAXl N C«tB ST*K. 9 ftACASTRtKRI STAKL Pound-Net. ^250 to , and five men are to wcrk three nets. A boat of peculiar form is generally , .schooner-rigged with wide square stern, and plenty of beam so as to permit of lifting the pockets or cribs of the pound. 1'hoy must be able to take a large load of fish and yet have little draught. A special scow is used for driving and pulling stakes, in the spring and winter respectively. The Fyke-net is essentially a miniature pound, the crib being replaced by two funnels of netting, one opening into the other, and the heart by wings leadino- to the door of the outer funnel at an angle of 45 degrees. They are used^for <;atching Perch, Catfish, etc. A similar device is the trap-net which is simply a miniature movable pound, the crib of which is held in position by weights and floats. .Pound-nets have largely superseded seines for inshore fishing, but in some favorable places with sandy bottom the latter are still used, as in the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers. They may be 1,000 feet long by 12 feet deep in the middle, where the mesh is narrowest, but shallower and with larger mesh in the wino-s! Horse-power is sometimes used for hauling the seines. The second important variety of net used is the gill-net, so-called as the mesh is arranged of such a size (4^ to 4f inches for Whitefish—3 J for Herring) as to catch fish striking the net behind the gill-covers. These nets are set vertically at different depths in deep water, often at right angles to the shore, the lower borders being weighted with stones or leads or iron rings (according to the kind " Jk O ^t. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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