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have been Iowererl, while the vessel goes on qiiite slowly, tlie whole apparatus 

 iraniediately piaces itself in the right position, with the boards removed c. 

 12 — 1() l'eet from one another, so that 3'ou can see in the surface of the water, 

 whether the whole apparatus is clear. Wheu you theu veer, in such a way that 

 the tow-rope does not run out too quickly, the gear will always get clear lo 

 the bottom; if not, the bag may, when the arms are veered down over it, 

 twist round the latter, or one board may fall down over the other. Such a 

 thing, however, happeued only in the beginning. 



As above mentioned, I suppose that the boards, with the usual, suitable 

 speed (about 1 knot), are 12 — IG feet removed from one another. The seine, 

 thorefore, gapes as widely as the common trawls for scieutitic use, eveu in 

 the largest vessels. The height of the mouth is c. 3 — 4 feet in the w^ater, con- 

 sequently considerably greater than in the said trawls (c. 2 feet). The length 

 from the boards to the end ol the bag is c. 40 feet, against a total length of 

 17 — 20 feet in the trawls, and yet this apparatus may be emploj'ed easily 

 from the smallest steam-boat that can only tow it, or from a little sailing-vessel 

 of 5 tons. 



It would be desii-able to compare the fishing capacity of the o/tø-seine 

 (lirectly to that of one of the common deep-sea trawls; but I have been unable 

 to do so. The seine, however, has fished most excellently; on shallow water, 

 for instance, lots of Eels, Cod, Whitings, various species of flat-fishes etc, and 

 on deeper water, Corypliænoides rupestris, Gadns poidassoii, (xcid^is morrhnn, 

 Gadus Esmarhii, Merlnccius, Argentina, Chimæra, Lycodes, Myaine, Bays, 

 large Pandalus, Hippohjte, Nephrops, Posiphai'. Nydiphanes, CnUle-fish, and a 

 greut many other smaller, (juick animals. But the thing which in my eyes 

 is the most importaut in this matter, is, that tho apparatus, without being 

 perceptibly more diflicnlt to manage, can be made still larger and eonse(]uently 

 be able to catch much more, and to catch other of the quick animals which now 

 escape it. For use in another year I have had a seine made which is a little larger 

 in all the meshes and whose bag is 500 meshes in circumference, the arms, 

 at the bag, being 120 meshes deep and 300 meshes long. — If we prefer the 

 400 meshes, as in the above described seine, it is not neeessary, however, to 

 make it exactly like that in order to get a seine that fishes well. The fisher- 

 men are said, for instance, often to make the arms 120 meshes deep, instead 

 of 100; in this way the (i »liitches« at the mouth are made smaller by 20 

 meshes, above as well us below. There is no small difference between the eel- 

 dragseines in the various parts of the country with respect to the size and 

 nuniber of the meshes, the sewing on, etc, conditioned by the size of the 



