. The beam-trawl fishery of Great Britain. Trawls and trawling; Fisheries. 312 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. beam finds a snug berth, and all danger of the heavy and somewhat unmanageable spar swinging on board as the vessel lurches is avoided. It would be often difficult to prevent this if the beam were not long enough to overlap the after ; ' The above .statement applies more particularly tn the single-masted cutters, but it may he said that on the larger ketch-rigged trawlers the forward end of the beam usually comes in abaft the main rigging, and is prevented
. The beam-trawl fishery of Great Britain. Trawls and trawling; Fisheries. 312 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. beam finds a snug berth, and all danger of the heavy and somewhat unmanageable spar swinging on board as the vessel lurches is avoided. It would be often difficult to prevent this if the beam were not long enough to overlap the after ; ' The above .statement applies more particularly tn the single-masted cutters, but it may he said that on the larger ketch-rigged trawlers the forward end of the beam usually comes in abaft the main rigging, and is prevented from swinging across deck by a guy rope (one end of which is last to the after main shroud), which is taken around the head or the end of the beam In one man. who holds it thinly with a round turn on the rigging. (b). The Traiol-heads. The traw 1 heads, or head-irons, serve a variety of purposes, such as (1) weighting the trawl sufficiently to sink it; (2) supporting the beam, each end of w hich is (irmly fixed at right angles into a socket, commonly called a " cap" or "joggle," above or below the top of the head-irou; (3) raising the upper part or back of the net, which is fastened to the beam, from the ground, thus keeping the mouth of the apparatus open sufficiently to permit the entrance of fish; (4) as a runner, which slides easily over the bott , and to which are attached, on the trout side, the towing bridles. \\ bile the foot rope and wiugs of the net are fastened to the rear of the trawl head. There are several forms of head-inms used on different parts of the British coast, though those most commonly employed have a general resemblance to each other; local differences being due, in most cases, to some peculiarity which exists or has existed in the fishing from certain Fig. 1. Trawl-head. From Grimsby, Hull, and other important fishing ports on the easl coast of England a trawl-head like that shown in Fig. 1 is the prevailing 'Deep-Sea Fi
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