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stretched by means of wooden laths, and its position in the water is horizontal. 

 It is used at Lesina for fishing mendole, and the net is cast just over the 

 shoals, or schools, of fish. Although made of fine twine, the net is heavily 

 weighted. 



2. Trammel, or Set-Nets, 



Red tramacchiate, or tramagliatc, or vestite, i.e. dressed, derived from the 

 Latin tres macula, i.e., three meshes ; it is known in France by the name 

 of tremail, or tramail (from trois mailles), and in low Latin by the name 

 of tramallum, or tramcla (see Plate X.). 



They consist of three long nets, placed side by side, and fastened together 

 at the back, foot, and ends. The middle net is small-meshed (jiappa sottile), 

 2-3 c. in the diagonal, and is made both longer and wider than the two outside 

 nets, the excess being gathered in at short intervals along the edges, where 

 the three nets are fastened together. The consequence is that the middle 

 net hangs slack between the two outer nets. The two outer nets (Chiaroni) 

 are made of coarse twine, the mesh called (Cerbere) measuring 15-34 c. 

 in the diagonal ; they are mounted so that the meshes are exactly opposite 

 one another, the inner net hanging loosely between them, and, being fully 

 extended, the meshes are wide open, thus allowing a free passage for the 

 fish. When a fish passes through the first outer net, it meets the inner small, 

 meshed net, and carries a portion of it through the other outer net, thus 

 producing a bag or pocket beyond it, whence is derived the term of Reti 

 d'insacco, by which these nets are also known. The more the fish struggles 

 to escape, the more hopelessly it becomes entangled. 



The trammel is cast so that its length is in the direction of the tide, being 

 anchored and buoyed or sustained by means of dry pumpkins at both ends; 

 the back, or upper side, being well corked, and the foot weighted, to keep the 

 whole net in its proper position. It is generally left down over night, some- 

 times longer, and the fish either enter by chance, or are driven towards it by 

 striking on the water. 



The Saltarello (at Naples called Vollari) is a combination of a simple 

 ground- net composed of several Spedoni hanging perpendicularly in the water, 



