126 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



^e^liiiig'-iiets (entangling in meshes). 

 Herring gill-nets. 



These nets arc about 40 yards Ioiijj: and 15<i mcshos in dopth. Tlu-y aro 

 Btrotfhed tojicther in big gangs, lloatcd by jiit-ccs of wood and wcigliti-d 

 by stones. Tlicy are made of 45 and (i thread eotton from 14 to 20 yaiii, 

 y^ ineh average mesh. American Net and Twine Company, Boston, Mass. 

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

 ton, JIass. 



Other gill-nets. 



1()G7. Gill-net. Anderson River Eskimos. Anderson River, II. B. T. R. 



MacFarlane. 

 71)02. Gill-net matle of animal fiber. Kawcpiettle Indians. Vaneonver's 



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

 19043, Gill-net. Cooyuwee Pi-Ute Indians, ryramid Lake, Ncv. Stejdu-n. 



Powers. 

 4705. Gill-net made of "Babiche." Anderson River Indians. Mackenzie's 



River district, H. B. T. MacFarlane. 



Pocki>t-Eiet§ (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. 

 20118-29. 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. 

 The inside netting of fmer linen thread (20-25, 3-cord), mesh 2-2^, J deeper 

 than the outside. The outside netting-wall from collon (l.'>-21 thread), 

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



31. Encircling-nets. 



Seines. 



20134. Seven l>ale8 of brown seine-netting. Used for manufacture of 

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

 pany, Boston, Mass. 



20139. Eighteen bales of whit-e seine-netting. Anieiiian Net and Twine 

 Company, Boston, Mass. 



Seal-seines. 



17270. Seal-net made of sinew. Found w rapped about a mummy. Kag.o- 

 mil Island, Alaska. Al.'iska Commercial Company, San Francisco, 



Cal. 



■M;ni;it«'«' seines. 

 Sluul-seines. 

 iVInllet-seincs. 

 Menh;ulon-seine.^. 



