Cormercial Fishing Possibilities 



As the fishing potentialities were of definite interest to the explora- 

 tory program, sets of ground long-line gear, baited with frozen herring and squid, 

 wa^ made near the 22-fathom peak (see fig, 39) o The long-line gear used was es- 

 sentially the same as that used by Pacific coast halibut fishermen. 



FIGURE 39 - POSITION OF LONG-LINE SETS MADE ADJACENT TO THE 22- FATHOM PEAK. 



This type of gear is made up of a main groxmd line to wb_Lch a number of 

 offshoots (gangions), containing the hooks, are attached (see fig, 40). The ground 

 line, with the gangions, attaches to a 7-or 8-fathom section of hook-free rope 

 called the slipshot line which is, in turn, made fast to the anchor. The anchors 

 which hold the gear in place are linked to surface floats, usually wooden kegs, by 

 means of buoy lines. A marker flag at the end of a bamboo pole is connected by a 

 short section of line to the wooden keg. 



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The ground line used by the Cobb was made up of a number of 50 fathoms 

 lengths of 48-pound hemp lines ,^ Each "line" contained twenty-one l6-pound lemp 

 gangions, spaced 13 feet apart. The gangions were 5 feet in length and held number 

 32 hooks. Five lines were knotted together to form a skate of gear, a skate being 



3/SIZES INDICATED BY WEIGHT OF PACKAGE- -A PACKAGE CONTAINS SIX 50-FATHOMS SKEINS, 

 OF SIX SKEINS OF 48-POUND LINE WEIGHS 48 POUNDS. 



OR A PACKAGE 



50 



