FISHERIES OF PAMLICO AND CORE SOUNDS aia 
A pound-net crew usually is made uD of two men, but sometimes 
three, manning an open power boat, 25 feet long, 6 to.7 feet wide, 
and having a speed of about 7 miles an hour. The fishermen usually 
camp on some island or point within an hour’s run from their nets, 
returning home only for the week-ends. 
The pound net is fished by running the boat nearly over one side 
of the pound into the inclosure, and by means of a hook a side of the 
pound is raised and brought on board. The sides and bottom of the 
pound are then gradually taken up to the surface of the water until 
the fish are gathered or bunted into a small section of the side, from 
which they can be bailed into the boat. The entire process does not 
take the experienced fishermen more than 10 minutes in good weather, 
but hours are sometimes consumed in clearing the nets of small fish 
that have become gilled in the meshes. After fishing all their pounds 

Fic. 4——Long-haul seining. The seine has been removed and the men are now hauling the bunt 
net. The bunt net is used to inclose the fish so that they may belanded. Finer mesh and heavier 
twine in this net prevent the fish from rushing the net and escaping or becoming gilled in the meshes 
the fishermen return to their camp and weigh and sell the catch to 
waiting buy boats sent by various wholesale fish dealers. 
Pound nets are set in the deepest waters of Pamlico Sound, which 
are from 16 to 29 feet in depth. The gear is always set on a muddy 
bottom because of the necessity of a good. holding ground for the 
stakes and because the fishermen believe that fish gather on this 
muddy bottom to feed. 
Long-haul seining.—This is a method of fishing in which a seine is 
dragged between two power boats for a certain distance and then 
landed by hand in shallow water. 
The nets consist of eight sections, each 150 yards long, and 12 feet 
deep, made of cotton webbing of a 3-inch stretched mesh. At the 
ends of each section are fastened 8-foot wooden staffs, leaded at the 
lower ends. A bunt net, 125 yards long and 100 to 125 meshes deep, 
with a mesh of 24% inches, is also a part “of the equipment. The more 
efficient boats are 30 to 40 feet long, drawing not more than 3 feet of 
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