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In 18G1 lie sold it to Messrs. William Gray and Miles Pierce, and it 

 was taken to Cape Newagen, where it was successfully used by carrying- 

 it out in a small boat and landing- the fish on a dressing stage on shore 

 in the same way. The next year it was put aboard a small schooner, 

 . the "Leon," and the fish landed as before in small boats to be dressed, 

 the vessel being only large enough to carry the seine. 



In 1863 the seine was put aboard the schooner " Dawning Day," 73 tons 

 O. M., and the fish were dressed aboard. This was really the commence- 

 ment of deep-water seining in this section, and the vessel did so well as 

 to induce others to go into the business the following year. 



The schooner "Niagara" was the first to provide herself with a seine in 

 1864, and another w T as bought and owned by two small vessels, the "Wild 

 Rose" and the "Neptune," one carrying the seine and the other salt and 

 barrels for curing the fish. This plan did not work Avell and Avas soon 

 abandoned. The schooner "Niagara" did well from the start and has 

 always been high line of the seiners for this section. 



Georgetown sent one seiner, the " Coquimbo," in 1865, and a little later 

 the schooner "Sunbeam," Captain McMann, but they met with poor suc- 

 cess, and no seiners have been sent since from that port. 



Westport has made two attempts at introducing seining; the first in 

 1872 by schooner "Jennie Armstrong," Capt. B. F. Jewett, and the sec- 

 Mid a three-masted schooner of 350 tons, the "Geo. W. Jewett," Capt. 

 A. M. Jewett, carrying two seines and crews in 1875. Both vessels did 

 very poorly and gave up the business after the first season. 



21.— The attempted use of the purse-seine in Norwegian 



WATERS. 



In 1878 a Gloucester vessel essayed fishing for mackerel with a purse- 

 seine on the coast of Norway. In April the schooner "Notice," Capt. 

 Knud Markurson, departed on this mission, taking a crew of twelve 

 men and the most approved seining apparatus. It was remarked by a 

 writer in the Deutsche Fischerei Zeitung, of July: 



"The mackerel fishermen, who have till now been in the habit of ply- 

 ing their trade in open but suitable boats, are, however, greatly agi- 

 tated at the present moment in consequence of the arrival at Bisor,some 

 three weeks ago, of an American fishing smack, direct from Gloucester, 

 in North America, understood to be followed by a whole fishing lleet 

 from New England, to take part in the mackerel fishery outside th? 

 Norwegian fishing territorium. As all these American smacks are re- 

 ported as provided with bag or purse nets, by means of which they are 

 enabled to catch more fish upon one single haul than ten Norwegian 

 boats during a whole day, it is obvious that the Norwegian fishermen 

 will have to discard their old mode of fishing, and to have recourse to 

 the American fishing method, if they do not want to lose all the advan- 

 tages enjoyed till now. The mackerel fishery has alwavs been of great 

 importance to Norway, some 7,000,000 of these fish being on the aver- 



