Archive image from page 80 of Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats. Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats. An account of the practical working of the various fisheries around the British Islands. With illustrations and descriptions of the boats, nets, and other gear in use, by Edmund W. H. Holdsworth deepseafishingfi00hold Year: 1874 TRAWLING. 57 aiid has been a long time in use by vessels belonging to the Thames. It is now also generally adopted by the Yarmouth smacks, having been introduced by the Barking vessels, many of which find it convenient to make that port their station. Another form (B)
Archive image from page 80 of Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats. Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats. An account of the practical working of the various fisheries around the British Islands. With illustrations and descriptions of the boats, nets, and other gear in use, by Edmund W. H. Holdsworth deepseafishingfi00hold Year: 1874 TRAWLING. 57 aiid has been a long time in use by vessels belonging to the Thames. It is now also generally adopted by the Yarmouth smacks, having been introduced by the Barking vessels, many of which find it convenient to make that port their station. Another form (B) is used on many parts of the coast by the small inshore trawlers, and is but a very slight modification of that employed by the Brixham men, the difference con- sisting in the iron loop through which the ground-rope passes before it is made fast being inside instead of outside the frame. Among other varieties of trawl- head may be mentioned those we have found used by some of the French trawlers (C, D), and the noticeable French Trawl-heads. feature in them is that the beam is placed so near the front of the head as to require the tow-rope to be fixed very low to prevent the fore part of the shoe burying itself in the ground. This is further guarded against in one variety by the additional length of the frame behind the beam. There appears to be a want of balance in these French irons which is not the case in those used by our own fishermen. No doubt there is some degree of fancy in the shapes adopted; but the English irons strike one as better adapted for their
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