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fish are to be sold at the dike. For the purpose of weighiug fish with 

 these scales, two men as near of a size as possible lay one of the water- 



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dippers described above over their shouhlcrs; the scales are suspended 



between the two men from the handle of tlie dipper, and weighing begius. 

 IS. Fishermen's clothes. — Of special articles of clothing we will only 



mention large leather boots reaching above the thighs; and to these 



may bi' added, in very large ])(»nds, a leather jacket buttoned to these 



boots. 



10. Boats. — There shoukl be on hand a suitable number of Mat-bot- 

 tomed boats, w'hich by boards 

 placed crosswise are divided 

 into several compartments, so 

 that if necessary fish can be 

 stored away in them. 



IM). In river Jisheries some 

 other nets and seines are used 



in addition to those described. These are : 



(rt) The castnet, described by JMoliu, as follows: The cast-net is cone- 

 shaped, its mouth is very wide and must be proportioned to the height. 



At the point C, a rope, E, varying in length, 



is fastened. If a net of this kind measures 



20 meters in breadth, it should be 4 meters 



high. As a general rule the ])ro])ortion of 



its height to its breadth is as 1 to 5. The 



edge of the mouth is hemnu'd with a roi)e of 



The thickness of a (piill, from which dei)end 



lead balls, weighing .'iO grams each, which 



are placed at equal distances from each 



other, and weigh 10 to 1:2 kilograms in all. 



The edge of the net projects beyond thi- 



rope about 22 to .'>3 centimeters, but is folded - '.^''^ 



inside and fastened in some places to the 



lines ]) 1) D, which extend from the top to the edge, so that the edge 



folded inside forms a series of pockets round the niouth of the net, 



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