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When fishing, the trawl lines are set from the boat, which usually 



runs along under short sail. The sail is lowered when the gear is 



hauled. 



Gift of Japanese Columbian Exposition Commission. 



Cat. No. 76,320 U.S.N.M. 

 Model of Japanese fishing boat. 



This type of boat is used on the coast of Hokkaido in connection 

 with the pound-net fishery for herring. Its natiye name is " waku- 

 ami-bune," and its object is to support a bag net, into which the 

 herring pass from the pound net. 



The model represents an open, caryel-built (with flattened seams), 

 keelless boat with sharp, flaring, overhanging bow; strongly raking 

 stem, curved at top and rising above bow ; stemhead coppered ; nar- 

 row, flat bottom; rising floor; nearly vertical sides; bottom curved 

 up strongh' in after section; square stern, with projecting sides; 

 large rudder, which extends far below the bottom; stout cross- 

 beams; fitted to receive mast; short section forward housed in by 

 thatched roof; equipped with bag net hung to both sides, bow and 

 stern. 



Dimensions of boat. — Length over all, 35 feet 10 inches; beam, 9 

 feet 4| inches; depth, 2 feet 5 inches. Scale of model, li inches 

 equal 1 foot. 



This boat, with its flat, bag-shaped net suspended under it, is con- 

 sidered the most striking feature of the pound-net fishery. It is 

 placed at the closed end of the pound and the bag net is joined to 

 the pound by one of its sides. When a shoal of herring enters the 

 pound a boat at its entrance takes of the rope and draws up the net, 

 and on its approaching the end up the pound the fishermen in the 

 bag-net boat allow the joining line of the bag net and the pound to 

 sink somewhat below the surface of the sea and the fish are passed 

 on into the former. The joining line is then again raised and when, 

 after repeating this process a number of times, the bag net is filled 

 the boat leaves its post, to be taken by another, and rows for the 

 coast, where the fish are bailed from the net after it is towed to the 

 shore. 

 Gift of Japanese Columbian Exposition Commission. 



Cat. No. 76,321 U.S.N.M. 



Model of Japanese fishing boat. 



A type of boat very generally used in the Japanese fisheries, more 

 jDarticularly in the circle net fishery for sardines, bonito, etc. It is 

 one of a pair of boats used for operating a circle net. The model 

 shows a wooden, keelless, open boat with long, sharp bow ; straight, 

 strongly raking stem ; narrow flat bottom, cambered at after end ; 

 two strakes of side planks, the lower one rising at an angle of 



