. Preliminary report on the fish and fisheries of Ontario [microform]. Fishes; Fisheries; Poissons; Pêche commerciale. 4(!4 :: APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN OATOHING FISH. Of these there are two important nuxlitications:—" Pouiul-ncts " (in various forms) for nhallow-water «, and "j^ill-nets" for deep-water. Tlio pound-net essentially consists of a long net, the so-culled " leader " pro- jecting^ at ii<»ht angles to the shore for from IlOO to GOO yards, and supported hy 8troni to rt inches, of the funnel 3, and of the pot frecjuently only 2 to 2k, to the destru
. Preliminary report on the fish and fisheries of Ontario [microform]. Fishes; Fisheries; Poissons; Pêche commerciale. 4(!4 :: APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN OATOHING FISH. Of these there are two important nuxlitications:—" Pouiul-ncts " (in various forms) for nhallow-water «, and "j^ill-nets" for deep-water. Tlio pound-net essentially consists of a long net, the so-culled " leader " pro- jecting^ at ii<»ht angles to the shore for from IlOO to GOO yards, and supported hy 8troni to rt inches, of the funnel 3, and of the pot frecjuently only 2 to 2k, to the destruction of immense numbers of inunature VVhitetish. ]k^yond the first crib a second leader, terminating in the same waj', and a third—indeed, as many as twenty have been arranged in "strings," if the shallowness of the water admit of it. Lake Erie obviously permits of such rlestructive use of this kind of apparatus more extensively than any of the other lakes, so that as many as 900 pounds exist on its American side. The average value of a pound-net is from. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wright, R. Ramsay (Robert Ramsay), 1852-1933. [Toronto? : s. n. ]
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