[17] PLAN OF INQUIRY FOR FISHERY CENSUS. 19 
12. What baits do they use at different seasons? Where and how 
are they obtained? 
13. What is the average length of a trip in the case of vessels on the 
high seas? Specify for each kind of fishery. 
SHORE AND BOAT FISHING. 
Answer the following questions for each town: 
1. How many small fishing-boats of less than ten tons burden? 
2. How many men engaged in boat fishery in summer from dories, 
rowboats, sailboats ? 
3. How many in winter ? 
4. How many, besides those professionally engaged in fishing, make 
part of their living by fishing? 
5. How far from the shore do they fish? 
6. Are hand-lines or trawls used? Describe methods of anchoring, 
bait, trawls. 
7. What kinds of fish are chiefly taken? State for different seasons. 
8. Estimate the average daily, in the season, and annual catch of a 
man fishing with hand-lines. 
9. Make the same estimate for a man fishing with trawl-line. 
STATIONARY APPARATUS. 
Attention should be paid to the various kinds of stationary apparatus: 
Traps. 
Weirs. 
Pounds. 
Gill-nets. 
Seines. 
Slides. 
Baskets, &e. 
These should be described in detail, illustrated with drawings, and 
with accounts of the methods of working. The local peculiarities of 
setting and hauling them should be described also. 
Material of construction. 
Relation to bars, tides, &c. 
Mark the location of each pound, weir, or trap on a chart; also make 
a diagram of the shape and location of some of the most characteristic, 
giving— 
1. Dimensions of bowls. 
, 2. Length of leader. 
3. Material and manner of construction. 
Depth of water where they are constructed ; dependence on tides, &c. 
