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At the Fisheries Office, Garden Palace, there are now on view some 

 of the fishing implements used in other parts of the world. They were 

 obtained by the Commissioners of Fisheries, with the objects of testing 

 the applicability of the modes of fishing pi^actised in some parts of the 

 Continents of Europe and America to the fisheries of this Colony, and 

 of affbrding to our fishermen an opportunity of acquainting themselves 

 with the necessary appliances. Amongst the articles referred to, and 

 which can be inspected by persons interested, will be found the follow- 

 ing : — A purse seine, such as is used in the menhaden fishery on the 

 Maine coast. North America ; a trawl jiet, with beam, complete, as used 

 by the Grimsby fishermen; a drift net of the kind used in the herring 

 fishery, Scotland ; a bultow, or set line, used by the French fishermen at 

 Newfoundland ; a set line, used by the Norwegian cod-fishers in the 

 North Sea ; glass baits and floats, in use in the Norwegian fisheries ; an 

 otter trawl net, a trammel net. In addition to these are a set of boat 

 fittings for working the menhaden purse seine; also, a pair of woollen 

 nipjDers, not well known to any but American fishermen; they are used 

 in hauling the bultow. Herr Von Behr, President of the German 

 Fischerei Yerein, said in regard to these nippers that, though insignificant 

 in appearance and simple in contrivance, they deserved to rank amongst 

 the most important of the American exhibits at Berlin. It is possible 

 they may be utilized in the deep sea fishing on this coast. 



