Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries . Tounu^Net tit. Wacnioit, Slass. side of the bowl, casting off the bottom-lines; while the other, in a yawl-boat,.pushes inside the bowls, pulls up the sliding poles, and closes the entrance. Theslackening of the bottom-lines allows the bowl-net to hang free; and the crew in-side begin to haul up the bottom of this net in such a way as to work the fishtoward one corner, letting the net, as it comes to the surface, pass under their boat,which is thus slowly drawn across the bowl toward the corner where the captureis to
Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries . Tounu^Net tit. Wacnioit, Slass. side of the bowl, casting off the bottom-lines; while the other, in a yawl-boat,.pushes inside the bowls, pulls up the sliding poles, and closes the entrance. Theslackening of the bottom-lines allows the bowl-net to hang free; and the crew in-side begin to haul up the bottom of this net in such a way as to work the fishtoward one corner, letting the net, as it comes to the surface, pass under their boat,which is thus slowly drawn across the bowl toward the corner where the captureis to take place, and. where the scow is already waiting outside. APPAEATUS USED IN CAPTURING FISH. 269 An arrangement, different in construction, but on the same generalprinciple, largely in use from New York to New London, consists of whatis called a fyke-net, as shown in the accompanying sketch, (Fig. 14 :) 5 III. This is essentially a leader, of any length, ending between the extendedarms of a fyke-net, which is nothing more than the ordinary set-net 270 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. of the rivers. The fish, in their movements, strike against the leader,are led unconsciously to this net and trapped, from which they All these various forms of heart-pounds are so arranged as to takefish from either side, whether with the ebb or the flood, although it isperhaps more common for the fish to run along the shores in the ebb ofthe tide rather than the flood. As we pass to the north of Cape Cod a different form of fixed appa-ratus comes into use, these generally the weir proper, which is commonlyconstructed of brush, and usually takes the fish at low tide, either leav-ing them inclosed in a small basin, from which they are seined, or caus-ing them to be stranded on the bottom, where they are picked up. The simplest form of a brush-weir consists of a mere fence of brushdri
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