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tlie Vessel, as niucli uiiid as you thinlc lit. In sliorl, you do just as a, trawler 

 when he takes in liis trawl. ( )n a very soft bottom, particularly where 

 tliorc live many Brifisopsis or F.cli'iDocuriVnim , tlie seine may be i'illed witli 

 bottora-niaterial. Tliis can be a^'oidell by i'astening an old, flexible, and tliii'k 

 ooir-rope (2 — 3 indies in diameter) to tlie foot-rope. — T tbink it superlinous 

 liere to enter iuto tbe details of raany otlier tbings wbicb must be takeu into 

 consideration while trawling: tbe direotion of wind and current, etc. (As to 

 tilis cmp. Tanncr: Deep-Sea Exploration. Bnll. U. S. F. C Vol. XVI. 189(i. 

 pp. 300—95). - 



The otter-seines I employed consist, as to net-apparatus (cmii. fig. 6), of 

 two arms, caeb of tbem 300 — 340 mesbes long and in tbeir A\bole lengtb 100 



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Fis. f'. T*i6 otter-seine employed by Petersen. 

 M. moans lupshos. Tom. mnans Danisli iiichcs. — Ear-h arm is e. '1\ leet luni,' and llio ba.i? c. l(i leet. 



mesbes deep, fastened to tbe Ixkj (at llio moiifh uf the seine). Tbe bag consists 

 of a forepart and a binderpart, and eontains a pocket fastened to tlie bindmost 

 border of tbe l'orepart of tbe bag. Tbe forepart of tbe bag is 36 meslies long 

 and 400 mesbes in circumferenoe, all tbrougb. Tbe foremost boi'der adjoins 

 citber arm witb 100 mesbes; of tbe remaining 200 mesbes (100 above and 

 100 below) 100 are sewn on to two i'eet of, respectively, bead-rope and foot- 

 rope, exactly the same for both, and, as sbown in tbe fignre, with 6 »hitches« 

 (12, 16, 22, 22, 16, 12 = 100 mesbes on 2 feet of tbe rope). By tbis the bag 

 becomes somewhat puckered above and below, but smootb by the arms. 



Tbe pocket, wbicb iu front is 400 mesbes in circumference, is sewn 

 011 to llie bindmost border of tbe forepart of tbe bag (conse((ueiitly 400 raeshes); 

 it is funnel-sbaped, 75 mesbes long and 100 mesbes iu circumference in tbe 

 bindmost, detached openiug. 



The binder part of the bag is c. 225 meshes long and 400 mesbes in 



