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tons. Tlic same kind of tisliing is worked at tlio iiioutli 

 of the Clyde and on some small banks outside. 



There is some handline fishing for whiting and had- 

 dock near the land, and longlines are worked in the 

 deeper parts of the Firth for cod, ling, and turbot. 

 The latter fishery w^as very much crippled by the Act 

 enforcing a close-time for herrings, and thus preventing 

 the line fishermen from obtaining the most attractive 

 bait. Trammels or set-nets are also used in some parts 

 of the Firth of Clyde for catching hake, cod, and various 

 other fishes. 



Campbelton, the Kyles of Bute, and Lochfyne were 

 for some years the seat of an active struggle between 

 two sets of fishermen, both engaged in catching herrings, 

 but by very different methods. The usual mode of 

 drifting for herrings, as followed in deep w^ater all 

 round our coasts, had been for an unknown length of 

 time the only recognized method in the localities we 

 have mentioned, as it still is practically on other parts 

 of the Scotch coast. But about the year 1838 an inno- 

 vation was made by the introduction of the sean or 

 circle-net, in Scotland known as the " trawl." ^ It is 

 the same kind of net as is used in Cornwall for the 

 capture of pilchards, and on other parts of the coast for 

 various kinds of fish. It is most effective when used 

 near the shore, and the enclosed fish can then be easily 

 taken into the boats or hauled up on the beach. When 

 the fish are in convenient localities a very large number 

 may be enclosed at once, and a boatload or more of 

 herrings obtained after only an hour or two ot work. 

 The difference between the two methods is very great ; 



^ The beam-trawl and the herring-trawl have been so much confused to- 

 gether by writers on the fisheries, that to prevent further misunderstanding 

 we sliall here speak of the latter net as the secm-t raivl . 



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