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vessel by the trawl-warp, the tail of the net is handed in, 

 untied, and the contents shaken out. The produce, depend- 

 ing somewhat on the nature of the ground, generally consists 

 of Red Mullet, different species of Gurnards, flat fish, and 

 Skate, with abundance of asteria, Crustacea, and echini. 

 The saleable fish being selected, the tail of the netting is 

 retied, and the net again lowered to the ground ; and while 

 the vessel continues its course, the refuse of one haul of the 

 net is swept overboard to make room for the produce of the 

 next. On some parts of the Dorsetshire and Devonshire 

 coast, the trawl ing-boats and their apparatus are much larger 

 than those here described ; the former being cutter-rigged 

 vessels of seventy or eighty tons burthen, and their nets of 

 thirty-six feet beam. Such vessels are constantly em- 

 ployed trawling in West Bay, and in Torbay; even as 

 near London as Barking Creek, boats and nets of this 

 size are common ; but the fishing-grounds for these ves- 

 sels and their crews are in various parts of the North Sea, 

 where a large and stout boat is absolutely necessary. The 

 principal trawling off the Sussex and Hampshire coast is 

 in the Channel, from twelve to thirty miles from the shore, 

 and the men are seldom absent more than one night at 

 a time. 



Where the water is deep, this mode of fishing is success- 

 fully practised either in the day or night ; but if the water 

 is shallow and clear, but little success is to be obtained in 

 the day. 



