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called the court, being opposed or open to the flood-tide 

 running up the river, the Salmon which in their passage up 

 along-shore strike against any part of the net are conducted 

 by its form to the chambers, from whence they can find no 

 retreat. 



Many fish, in the wide part of the estuaries, ascending 

 with each flood-tide and returning with the ebb, it is not 

 unusual to have stake-nets placed in the reverse position, 

 w ith the courts open to the ebb-tide, on purpose to meet this 

 disposition in the Salmon ; and they do actually sometimes 

 catch as many fish in their downward as in their upward 

 course. 



The central portions of the streams, many of which are 

 very wide, are worked incessantly by fishermen in boats 

 called cobles, with long sweeping seine-like nets. Another 

 mode of fishing is with a net dropped into the water from 

 the stern of a boat, as the boat is rowed away from the shore. 

 Men are stationed at particular places near the river, where 

 the water is shallow, to watch the fish coming up ; and so 

 habituated are they to this, that they can discover by a 

 ripple on the surface of the water even a solitary fish making 



