Identifier: labradorcountryp02gren (find matches)
Title: Labrador, the country and the people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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were found useless. Quite recently theenterprising firm of Bowring Brothers purchased a modernsteam trawler, and tried all around the coast and islands,but met with so little success that the attempt has beenabandoned. Gill-nets, which came next, are but littleused for cod. Cod seem ordinarily too lazy in dispositioneven to put their heads hard enough into a mesh to becaught. This is, of course, very unlike the more agilesalmon and trout. The large-mesh cod net, however,anchored on the bottom, still has its advocates, and at timesmany cod become entangled in the leaders of the trap-nets. The advent of the large seine-nets marked a very materialadvance in the rapidity with which the fish could be taken,and it is still at certain times and places the most success-ful method known. The net itself is an expensive affair.It is on an average eighty feet deep and over seven hundredfeet in length. It has corks on the top to keep its upperend on the surface and leads on the bottom to keep the
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THE COB AND COD-FISHERY 305 foot down. It needs a great deal of rope to work it, and,as a rule, a large crew of men. On an average, such a netcontains five hundred pounds of twine, and costs, ready togo into the water, about $500. The crew of the long,specially constructed boat numbers seven men, one of whomis the seine master; he directs the oarsmen, himselfstanding up forward on the lookout for shoals of fish.This net can be used only in more or less shallow water,where tides are slack and where the bottom is smooth andperfectly sandy. The purse-seine, a variety which can bepulled together into a bag below, and so fished far fromland in deep water, is not used on our coast. To enablethe master to see fish in ten fathoms of water, he uses a fish glass, a metal funnel with a plain glass bottom, whichhe pushes down below the ruffled surface of the sea. Anadvantage of the purse-seine net is that the fishermanpursues the fish with it, instead of waiting for them to cometo him. It satisfi

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