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389. In Uic Thyelmyo District, one native official answers as 

 follows : — That there are 137 resident /isher- 



Th'^ctm"". °^ """'"'' """"'"' "^ '"'^"' '^"*' •"=>"/ °*'**^'"^ ^"•^'^ ''""'" temporarily 

 '^ ' ' from Upper Burma ; as a rule, the fisliermcu 



do not follow any other occupation. The local markets are generally 

 fully supplied: now and then the fishermen take a holiday, and then no 

 hsh at all is to be had. The supply of fish has always been equal to tho 

 demand. Fish are trapped in the irrigated fields to a small extent. 

 The taxed nets in use are as follows: — (1) Hmaw, 211) X 8 cubits, 

 and an 8-inehed mesh [several of the sizes of mcslics given, being 

 ernmeous, are omitted], it is floated down a river; (2) Lct-matan-jmih, 

 25(1 X 8 cubits, with a mesh of 1 inch, one end is adixed to a sand- 

 bank, and the other is carried out into the stream and brought round to 

 the saud-bank ; (3) Paih-iooon-hoo, 800 X 35 cubits, with a mesh of 1 

 inch, drifted down the river by the aid of two boats and hauled on to fhe 

 bank; (4.) Kwooii-gee-jiaikox Mek-hooon-jiaik viXQC&^Wn^ \^^is\ (^) Paik- 

 lot, or Ilna-loon-queng is similar to No. 2, but is only made in U])per 

 Burma; (6) Hmyaw-ahig-dan., 25 X 10 cubits, used in backwaters close 

 to the river's bank, one end is fastened to the shore at the head of the 

 backwater, and the other end anchored out in the stream ; (7) llet- 

 gweng, 25 X 25 cubits, and a mesh of \ an inch, this is like the Chinese 

 dip-net, and said to lie very destructive to tlio young shad. The untaxed 

 nct.i are given as follows : — (1) Nga-fsein-paik, 50 X 1 cubit, with a mesh 

 of 1 inch, it is pulled along in shallow waters during the dry season near 

 the shore ; (2) Oo-tscin-paik, CO X 4 cubits, with a mesh of an inch 

 used as the foregoing; (3) Bong-ma, a casting net; (4) Taik-hijon, 

 80 X 8 cubits, having a mesh of 3 inches, worked like No. I of the taxed 

 nets; [h) Let-pyii-kwo»,l Xl cubits, with a mesh of three fourths of 

 an iiicli, pulled along in shallow water; (6) Khyee-kwon, 400x7 cubits, 

 and a mesh of 2 iuches, these nels are worked like the last, and are now 

 and then brought down from U])per Burma; (7) Kiron-neng, G X 7 cubits, 

 with a mesh of 4 inches between each knot [?J, a casting-net; (8) Daing- 

 «J0«, a prawn-net ; (0) G'aip, a net let down to the bottom of the stream 

 and baited; (10) Boo-kliijoon, a float-net ii.sed in large rivers to capture 

 ascending fish during the dry season. 



390. From the Amherst District, the answer of four Myo-okes have 



been received : they report that the great 



Opinion of native official of ,„,^joi.i( ^ ^f ^1,^ figbermen are cidtivators, and 



Amherst. '' « •' , , , i • ,i • l- 



very few solely employed in this occupation. 



The markets are stated not to be fully supplied in any of the districts : 

 the whole of the population cat fish. The amount in the waters is con- 

 sidered to have remained stationary in two, and to be decreasing yearly in 

 the remaining two. Small fish are caught in the fields and creeks during 

 the rains by means of dams, tamans, and traps, yecn and yetliai, 

 and other contrivances. The smallest mesh emploj'ed is \ an inch in 

 the hand nets. Fish are trapped in the fields during the rains, and 

 caught by means of hmyone, yeen, koondoung , and yet/iai, &e. 

 The names only of the im])lemcnts employed in fishing is .given. 

 [Poisoning of waters is also resorted to during the dry Koason in this 

 district, as will bo observed from the following rciwrt furni-slunl by Mr. 

 J. W. Liglis, ExrcHtive Engineer of the Amhersl Division, in 1809: — 



