AMERICA'S FISHERIES 161 



above the other, the height of the column would be 

 about twelve hundred miles. The fish would fill ten 

 thousand freight cars. 



Fishery Methods 



Although in Europe steam and motor-propelled 

 trawlers and drifters have long since replaced sail- 

 ing-vessels using hook and line, the American, 

 Canadian, and Newfoundland fishermen have been 

 slow to adopt these modern innovations in fishing 

 methods. Recently practically all of the schooners 

 have been equipped with auxiliary engines, but rela- 

 tively few steam trawlers are used. A large part of 

 the bank fishermen still use hooks and lines, probably 

 because this method of fishing jaelds a larger pro- 

 portion of cod, whereas the otter-trawls catch more 

 of the less valuable haddock. 



The actual fishing is done from flat-bottomed, 

 high-sided rowboats called dories, which are from 

 eighteen to twenty-two feet in length. From six to 

 twelve of these small boats are carried by each 

 schooner. When no fishing is being done, the dories 

 are nested on the deck of the schooner. 



Dory fishing makes the American, Canadian, and 

 Newfoundland fisherman a distinct type, for it adds 

 great hazards and labor to his already arduous life. 

 Once at the banks, the fishermen work from their 

 dories, which are towed by the schooner early each 

 morning to the place where the lines are to be set. 

 These long-lines or trawls are very long, ranging 

 from SlOO to 2400 feet in length, and are made of 

 thin but extremely strong tarred cotton. Into these 



