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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



setting 



ill time to prevent the escape of the flsb. By this precaution the fish 

 are gradnally driven back and forced into the pocket, where they are 

 kei>t until needed. 



The heart-net or -pound consists €>f three parts, the leader^ hearty and 

 J)ou% and is variously constructed, according to the fancy of the fisher- 

 men or the special conditions of the locality. Fig. 4 shows in more de- 

 tail the Rhode Island pound, figured and described by Mr. South wick 

 on page 10. In Fig. 5 will be seen a working plan of the very efficient 

 pound commanded by Captain Spindel at Wood's Hole, thfe construction 

 and management of which will be readily comprehended from the fol- 

 lowing directions supplied by him. This class of net does not require 

 the constant watchfulness of the managers, as the fish, once in, usually 

 lemain until taken out. This is done once or even twice a day. 



Fig. 5. First set mouth-poles, 1 and 1, 



six feet apart ; tlien from center, 

 C, run a line I'orty-tive feet long 

 to 2 and set stake or pole, and 

 the same to S and set pole, which 

 will bring those four poles in 

 range; then from center, C, 

 sweej) around the circle with 

 this forty-tive-feet line and set 

 the poles about eighteeu feet 

 apart, until jou come to 2; tlieu 

 from center of 1 and 2 fasten 

 line twenty-two and a half feet 

 long, and sweep the quarter 

 circle, setting the poles about 

 sixteen feet apart. A little jud 

 ment must be used in 

 these poles, as it is not a true 

 circle. Finish the other quar- 

 ter circle in same way, and 

 you will have the bowl poles set. 

 We set the bowl poles in cir- 

 cle, five feet larger than the bowl, 

 and anchor each pole. 



To set heart pieces, fasten line 

 to mouth of bowl at C, and run 

 straight line one hundred and 

 seventeen feet and set a pole for 

 leader: fasten line now to this 

 pole, and measure off thirty- 

 eight feet and set heart pole, A ; 

 then measure, say twenty-five 

 feet, to B, and set pole ; and 

 from this ])ole set a straight line 

 of poles, about twenty-five feet 

 apart, to mouth-pole 1. Have 

 the wing about twenty-seven 

 3 feet deep, with three poles. 



We have only one row of poles 

 ' to bowl, and are set five feet 

 larger than the bowl, so that the 

 netting can be drawn out taut, 

 both at the bottom and top, but 

 not necessarily close to the poles. Each pole is guyed with anchor. Our leader is two 

 hundred and sixty-five yards long, the poles being set about twenty feet apart. 



ISAIAH SPINDEL. 



The next figure represents another form of this pound, as erected at 

 Quissett Harbor by Captain Rogers, of Noank, Connecticut, and party, 

 consisting of four brothers. This is somewhat smaller than the other, 

 and is more easily taken off or put on the poles. We are indebted to 

 the captain for the following account of his apparatus. We may premise, 



