266 REPORT O^^lftMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



tuin at short angles, but prefer a course of straight lines or long curves. If the passage 

 to the tiuiuel is narrow and contracted, a fish becoming alarmed is mucli more apt to 

 tarn short round and pass out at the opening it lias just entered. In tlie large heart 



" they are quite as apt 



to dart through the 

 tunnel as to escape 

 through the shore- 

 ward openings. 



Like many other 

 gregarious aniuials, 

 tlie white-iish and 

 lake herring will 

 flock in behind a 

 leader, just as sheep 

 will through a gate. 

 Once in the pot, 

 they are not apt to 

 find the small open- 

 ing at the outlet of 

 tlie tunnel, but swim 

 around tlie sides, 

 and, after a time, 

 becoming familiar 

 with the net, or 

 crowded against the 

 sides by the num- 

 bers within the pot, 

 many attempt to 

 ]iass through the 

 meshes, the smaller 

 ones escaping, and a 

 few larger, becom- 

 ing gilled, die. Still, 

 no frantic eftbrt at 

 escajie is made until 

 the net is lifted. 



Ta k lug out th c 

 fishc8. — In taking 

 them out a boat is 

 sent round, and the 

 ropes staying the 

 bottom of the pound, 

 and tlu! tunnel-guys, 

 are all cast loose. 

 The boat is now 

 brought inside of 

 the pot, the "shov- 

 ers" are drawn up, 

 closing the entrance 

 to the tunnel, and 

 th(^ end of the tun- 

 nel is pulled up and 

 thrown back over 

 the side of the pot. 

 The bottom ^of the 

 net is raised by pull- 

 ing up the tun- 

 nel side, until it is 

 reached ; it is then 

 tripped along under 

 the boat until the 

 fishes are gathered 

 into a corner, like 

 shaking wheat into 

 the middle of a sheet, 

 when they are 

 thrown into the boat 

 with a scoop-net. 



The stakes on which pound netting- is fastened are usually driven into 

 place by means of a pile-driver, and are never left down throughout the 



