OPERATING THE HATCHERY 



Figure 12. — Seining minnows from an artificial pond. Drawdown has expo.sed the 

 inside seining' well. (Photograph courtesy of the Michigan Department of 

 Conservation.) 



on waders and wade out as far as smd hoist it out of the w a t e r. 

 possible. Two men take the seine Thouj^h the take by this method is 

 brailles and a third keeps the float- not large, the roiling process in- 



ing live box in tow. The three men 

 stand with their backs together and 

 roil the water with their feet. 

 When the water has been thor- 

 oughly roiled for a few minutes, 

 two seiners back off in opposite 

 directions pulling the seine in a cir- 

 cle. By going backward, they can 

 travel faster than if they went for- 

 ward. The third man turns and 

 backs out of tiie way splashing the 

 water as he goes to drive the min- 

 nows into the net. AVhen the sein- 

 ers liave completed the circle, thev 



creases the harvest as much as 8 to 

 10 times. (See figure 16.) 



Trapping bait fish 



Wire and glass traps. — Wire and 

 glass traps are commonly used by 

 minnow dealers to collect bait. 

 Similar in design and differing only 

 in construction materia.ls, both con- 

 sist of a pot and an entrance funnel 

 or funnels. The wire trap (fig. 17) 

 is more variable in design, being 

 round, rectangular, or square, and 



take up the slack in the net, bag it, having from one to four funnels. 



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