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at rates varying from Re. I-I2-0 to Rs. 2 8-0 per TOO; the balance 

 is consumed locally. When demand is weak and little is sold for 

 consumption fresh, the Squids are sundried and sold eventually at 

 Ramnad and other inland markets at about Rs. 3 per TOO. 



FlC. 23.— FiSHINi; I'LAIKOKM I'SRO AT RaMESWARAM WHEN JlGGINi: FOR SQt'ID. 



Jigging for Squid is practised chiefly for home requirements by 

 individual fishermen, who sun-dry any surplus they may have. 

 This method is largely employed along the northern coast of 

 Rameswaram Island, especially at Rameswaram and at Arya- 

 kundu, near Thangachimadam, during the Squid season. To carry 

 it on the fisherman erects a small outlook in shallow water a form 

 of machan (Fig. 23). The main portion of the structure consists 

 of a stout bifurcated tree branch of Y-shape, the main stem 



