124 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Ifleshing'-nets (entangling- in meshes). 



Salmon hook-gill-net of the Saint Lawrence. 



I Drift-nets. 

 t Those drifting across the tide. 

 Shad gill-nets used in Southern rivers. 



26126, 26131-2. Model of shad gill-net. American Net and Twine Company, 

 Boston and New York. 

 Used in rivers of the Atlantic coast. 



These nets are knit of linen thread (22-50, 3-cord, and 20-GO, 2-cord). 

 They range in length from 50 to 200 fathoms, and in depth from 25 to 90 

 meshes, 4f to 5 inch mesh. They are nsed exclusively as tlrift-nets. 



On the Connecticut River about 4,000 x>ounds of this netting are used 

 annually. The average weight of a net is 30 to 40 pounds, its depth 45 to 

 50 meshes, 5J to 5| inches. 



On the Hudson River about 7,500 pounds are annually used, line threads 

 (.50-75, 2-cord), 100 to 200 liithoms in length, and from 50 to 90 meshes in 

 depth, 4f to 5 inch, weight from 15 to 30 pounds to the net. 



In the Delaware, Potomac, and Chesapeake 20,000 pounds arc used, from 

 30 to 60 meshes in depth, and .^i (30 to 40, 2-cord) length, 75 to 100 fathoms. 



In the rivers of North Carolina nets are made from coarse twine (22-35, 

 3-cord, and 20-35, 2-cord) 25 to 40 meshes in dejith, 5-5^ gJ^i^ge- Their 

 length is about 100 yards. About 25,000 pounds are used annually. 



In the rivers of South Carolina the twine is slightly finer than in North 

 Carolina (25-35, 3-cord), 25 to 60 meshes deep, the size otherwise about the 

 same. 1,500 pounds are used annually. 



In Georgia and Florida about 6,000 pounds are nsed. This netting is 

 knit from linen thread (30-40, 3-cord, and 25-35, 2-cord) 40 to 60 meshes 

 in depth; 4| to 5^ mesh. About 18 to 24 iiounds are used in a net; its 

 length 100 yards. (E. B. French.) 



Herring gill-nets. 



Used in Hudson and DelaMare Rivers in capture of the alewife or herring 

 {Pwnolohus pseudoharengus'). 



* Knit from 30-40, 2-cord, thread, from 45 to 100 meshes in depth, 2| to 

 3 inch mesh ; about 13 pounds to a net on the Hudson and 6 to 7 jiounds 

 on the Delaware ; the nets on the Hudson, 60 to 100 meshes, on the Dela- 

 ware from 35 to 60. About 2,500 poimdsused annually. (E. B. French.) 



Mullet gill-nets. 



Used principallj^ on the Saint John's River, Florida. 



Knit from coarse linen thread (16-25, 3-cord) and from 33 to 50 meshes 

 indei)th. The size of mesh varies with the season: in July 34^, August ;{f, 

 September 4 inch. The average length of the nets is 100 to 150 yards. 

 About 1,500 to 2,000 pounds in use on Saint John's River, and about 1,000 

 pounds of cotton (^j" and -^ to ^^-) nets on the Gulf coast from 30 to 40 

 meshes in depth, 3* to 3f, not varying with seasons. (E. IJ. Frencli.) 



* The nets belonging to this series are enumerated below, among Nos. 26848-20880 . 



