126 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISnERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Me§lilfi§"-nets (cutaugliDg in meslies). 

 Herring gill-nets. 



These nets arc about 40 yards long and 150 meslies in depth. They are 

 stretched together in big gangs, floated by pieces of -vvood and weighted 

 by stones. They are made of 45 and 6 thread cotton from 14 to 20 yarn, 

 2^ inch average mesh. American Net and Twine Company, Boston, Mass. 

 . Model of herring gill-net. American Net and Twine Company, Bos- 

 ton, Mass. • 



Other gill-nets. 



1667. Gill-net. Anderson River Eskimos. Anderson River, H. B. T. R. 



MacFarlane. 

 7962. Gill-net made of animal fiber. Kawquettle Indians. Vanconvcr's 



Island, B. C. Dr. T. T. Minor. 

 19043. Gill-net. Cooyuwee Pi-Ute Indians. Pyramid Lake, Nev. Stephen. 



Powers. 

 47G5. Gill-net made of "Babiche." Anderson River Indians. Mackenzie's 



River district, H. B. T. MacFarlane. 



Pocket-nets (entangling in liockets). 

 Trammel-nets. 



25270. Model trammel-net. 10 feet long, 2 feet wide, 2 and 5 inch mesh. 



William E. Hooper & Sons, Baltimore, Md. 

 26118-29. Trammel-net. American Net and Twine Company. 



Used for general fishing in rivers and ponds of Northern Mississippi 



Valley. 



These nets range from 20 to 75 yards in length, 4 to 6| feet in depth. 



The inside netting of finer linen thread (20-25, 3-cord), mesh 2-2^, i deeper 



than the outside. The outside netting- wall from cotton (15-21 thread), 



mesh 8 to 10 inches. (E. B. French.) 



31. Encircling-nets. 

 iSemeis. 



Seines. 



26134. Seven bales of brown seine-netting. Used for manufacture of 

 pounds, traps, seines, fykes, &c. American Net and Twine Com- 

 pany, Boston, Mass. 



26139. Eighteen bales of whit« seine-netting. American Net and Twine 

 Company, Boston, Mass. 



Seal-seines. 



17270. Seal-net made of sinew. Found wrapped about a mummy. Kaga- 

 mil Island, Alaska. Alaska Commercial Company, San Francisco, 

 Cal. 



Manatee-seines. 

 Sliad-seines. 

 Mullet-seines. 

 Menhaden-seines. 



