126 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



IVIeshing'-nets (entangling in meshes). 

 Herring gill-nets. 



These nets are about 40 yards long and 150 meshes in depth. They are 

 stretched together in big gangs, floated by pieces of wood and weighted 

 by stones. They are made of 45 and 6 thread cotton from 14 to 20 yarn, 

 2^ inch average mesh. American Net and Twine Company, Boston, Mass. 

 . Model of herring gill-net. American Net and Twine Company, Bos- 

 ton, Mass. 



Other gill-nets. 



1667. Gill-net. Anderson River Eskimos. Anderson River, H. B. T. R. 



MacFarlane. 

 7962. Gill-net made of animal fiber. Kawqnettle Indians. Vancouver's 



Island, B. C. Dr. T. T. Minor. 

 19043. Gill-net. Cooyuwee Pi-Ute Indians. Pyramid Lake, Nev. Stephen. 



Powers. 

 4765. Gill-net made of "Babiche." Anderson River Indians. Mackenzie's 



River district, H. B. T. MacFarlane. 



Pocket-Biets (entangling in pockets). 

 Trammel-nets. 



25270. Model trammel-net. 10 feet long, 2 feet wide, 2 and 5 inch mesh. 



William E. Hooper & Sons, Baltimore, Md. 

 26118-29. Trammel-net. American Net and Twine Company. 



Used for general fishing in rivers and ponds of Northern Mississippi 

 Valley. 



These nets range from 20 to 75 yards in length, 4 to 6^ feet in depth. 

 Theinside netting of finer linen thread (20-25, 3-cord), mesh 2-2|^, i deeper 

 than the outside. The outside netting-wall from cotton (15-21 thread), 

 mesh 8 to 10 inches. (E. B. French.) 



31. Encircling-nets. 



Seines. 



26134. Seven bales of brown seine-netting. Used for manufacture of 

 pounds, traps, seines, fykes, &c. American Net and Twine Com- 

 pany, Boston, Mass. 



26139. Eighteen bales of whit-e seine-netting. American Net and Twine 

 Company, Boston, Mass. 



Seal-seines. 



17270. Seal-net made of sinew. Found wrapped about a mummy. Kaga- 

 mil Island, Alaska. Alaska Commercial Company, San Francisco, 

 Cal. 



Manatee-seines. 

 Shad-seines. 

 Mullet-seines. 

 Menhaden-seines. 



