120 THE FISHERIES OF THE ADRIATIC, 



The Tartana is still met with in the Gulf of Trieste, and on the west 

 coast of Istria, but it is hardly known on the rest of the Austrian- Hungarian 

 seaboard (see Plate XX.). 



The Tratta da Menole (Giravica, Olihiica, or Tratta piccola a" inverno in 

 Dalmatia) is similar to the sardine seine-net, only smaller and of coarse 

 twine ; used for Mmiidce {Menole), and Smaridce (Gira, or Girica, Croat.). 

 Length, 120 m.; depth, 8-10 m. ; mesh at the wings 3 c, at the bunt \\ c. ; 

 price, 100-150 florins. 



The Tratta da fondo (ATigavica, 1 or Sabaka, or zabaka, in Dalmatia) 

 consists of a small-meshed bag in the middle, without the hoops used in the 

 Cogblo ; it has longer wings, of larger meshes, than the Grippo ; it is used for 

 catching all kinds of shore-fish. Length, 180 m. ; depth of bunt, 30-35 m. ; 

 mesh at the ends of the wings 1 1 c, decreasing to \\ c. towards the bunt ; 

 bunt 2 c. ; price, 1 20-300 florins. The net of this name used on the coast of 

 J stria is smaller and has no bag. Length, 50 m. ; depth, 8 m. The Tratta 

 per novellame is a very small trawl used for catching fry for the fish-ponds 

 (valli). Length, 4 m. ; depth, 65 c. ; mesh 1 c. at the sides, \ c. in the 

 middle. 



The Trattisella is a small trawling-net. 



6. Hand-nets. 



The Ostreghera, Ostricara, or Cassa (I tab, Cucchiaia, or ladle), is a 

 coarse and strong large-meshed (6 c.) hempen net, fixed to a heavy semi- 

 circular iron-rod frame, after the fashion of a weeding-hook ; turbots and 

 flounders, and other ground-fish are caught with this. Iron spikes are, 

 sometimes, fixed to the under side for the purpose of raking the ground, 

 and thus forcing up certain species, which would otherwise remain buried in 

 the mud or sand. The net is bag-shaped, and is held extended lengthways by 

 a thick pole 2 m. long, and vertically by a cross-bar fixed to the middle of the 

 pole. Inside the net there is sometimes a small net-bag, so constructed that 



1 The meaning of this word is to " wink " (with the eye). This term is in allusion to the 

 closing of the meshes by the horizontal tension of the net. 



