COD WELLS. 



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" Walking about the docks I saw some Dutch fisher- 

 mon, very hardy fine-looking men. I understand they 

 are very clever fishermen, and can catch fish when nobody 

 else can. The Dutchmen bait with limpets, the English- 



EXTRANCE OF THE HARBOUR OF ST. JOHN S, NEWFOUNDLAND, WITH 



THE FISH STAGES. 



men use lamperns, and in the cod season a great num- 

 ber of boys are employed putting lamperns (which are 

 cut into little pieces) on to the hooks. 



'* The cod when caught are put alive into a well inside 

 the hold of the trawler. They are taken out by landing 

 nets. The cod will not live long in these wells when the 

 vessels are in the docks. A very ingenious device for 

 picking out any dead cod that might possibly remain in 

 the corners of the well is a kind of gaff, consisting of 

 two cod hooks hammered quite straight, with the barbs 

 facinf? each other. 



