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When landed, the seine should never be pulled onto 

 the shore. As soon as the fish are in the net, it 

 should be bagged loosely and floated to deeper water. 

 The fish should then be dipped with a small hand set 

 ( soap) into a floating live box (wooden box with a 

 hardware-cloth bottom) for sorting. 



As soon as a tankload of fish has been seined and 

 transferred to the live box, the fish should be weighed 

 and carried in a pail of water to the tank. The usual 

 procedure is to hang the scale from a tripod set in 

 several feet of water. A half-bushel metal basket is 

 partly filled with clean water. Ten pounds of fish 

 are weighed and carried to the truck. By weighing 10 

 pounds of fish at a time it is easy to keep account of 

 the fish taken or the production of a pond. Pish 

 handled in these amounts will not be too crowded or 

 easily injured. If the operator is interested in 

 knowing the number collected, he can weigh and count 

 the fish in 1 pound (fig. 14). 



Figure 14. — ^Production should be deter- 

 mined by weighing rather 

 than by volume. 



Minnesota Conservation Department 



