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Board except casting-nets from tlicir proposed regulations, 

 overlooking the fact that if such arc not open to supervision, 

 a numhcr may he joined together, and thus constitute a legal 

 net. In Haidarabad several casting-nets are used joined 

 together to stop up a stream, whilst others are employed 

 ahovc the obstacles (p. cxii). In the Central Provinces 

 (p. cxxiv), imndi, or the smallest cast-net, is ordinarily about 

 16 feet long, weighted with iron : when it is considered 

 desirable to net a considerable breadth of stream, several of 

 these nets are used fastened together, making one very long- 

 net : in this almost every kind of fish is caught. Another 

 plan of using casting-nets is, for several fishermen to 

 surround a pool, each armed with one, and they throw them 

 all together, so few fish have a chance of escape. A species 

 of lave-net is also used and in varioixs ways ; their plan of 

 construction is in a triangular frame. In Sind, the fishermen 

 floats down the Indus on a gourd or hollow earthen pot, and 

 this net is let doAvn l3elo,v him : as a hilsa fish, ascending up 

 the muddy stream, strik'S against the net, it is made to con- 

 tract like a purse by mians of a string the fisherman holds 

 in his hand. These lavenets are usually constructed of very 

 minute meshes, and cmjiloyed at the sides of rivers, ditches, 

 irrigation channels or in undated spots where fry are feeding, 

 and the current is not strong, and hei-ethe poor people destroy 

 a fcAv thousands for a single meal (pp. Iviii, cxxiii, cxxiv). 

 LXX. Nets, orTaiher moveable contrivances of inelas- 

 Composcd of iueiasiic mato- tic substanccs, are morc freely em- 

 *'"'^- ])loyed in some districts than in others. 



In Orissa, a salwiia o; p,u(tl consists of very fine split 

 bamboos, bound together by means of grass, the interstices 

 between each piece being eqixal to ^th of an inch or less. 

 This jmtll is about five feet high, and is in the shape of a 

 regular wall-net. It is taken to a tank, and placed in the 

 water in a V-form, wnilst the fishermen on either side 

 extend themselves outwards, and by beating the water drive 

 the fish into the enclosure. The two ends are now brought 

 together, and the fish penned into a small space. The sides 

 are advanced nearer and nearer until they almost touch, and 

 the fish are removed by a band-net, or by the hand alone. 

 Besides this, there are contrivances for a single person to 

 use ; thus, a peculiar form is cone-shaped, open at both ends; 

 this is thrust down in muddy water in places where fish 

 resort to, and the enclosed fish removed from the upper 

 opening. It is iised in the PanjAb (pp. xxii, xxv), in the 

 Central Provinces (p. cxxiii) — in fact, throughout India and 



