136 THE FISHERIES OF THE ADRIATIC, 



Names applied to the different Modes of Fishing. 



The different modes of fishing are designated, as a rule, by the names of 

 the fishing gear ; for instance, pcsca a cocchia, a cassa, a cerberai, a bragagna, 

 co lie bombine, a fosciua, a togna, a tratta, a tar tana, &c, &c. 



Other modes of fishing, again, are designated by special terms ; for, 

 instance, the opening of the valli cliiusc, in order to allow the fish to enter 

 the fish-ponds, is called pcsca a montada, or pesca a valle ; pesca a saltarello is 

 with a rowing boat, at night, with a light in the bows, the rowers pulling hard 

 but with muffled oars, and the fish, following in the wake of the boat, jump 

 (sallare) out of the water and into the boat. The fish thus caught are grey 

 mullet (volpine and cicvoli). 



Pesca a zattera is similar in principle, but differs in one respect, that no 

 light is used, the fish, also grey mullet, being scared in a given direction by 

 striking the surface of the water ; they meet with an obstruction, which 

 they jump over, and are caught in a net, on the principle of the Saltarello, 

 described amonsfst the trammel-nets. 



The boat called Pielego drags in its wake a heavily-weighted line, to which 

 are attached a number of baited hooks on snoods at equal distances apart, the 

 end of the line grazing the bed. This is called pcsca a pielego. 



Pesca a parangala is carried on with a similar line, which remains motion- 

 less in the water (described under Line-fisheries). 



Pesca a spavento, or a ludro, is when the fish are driven or scared into nets 

 by artificial means, such as by striking the surface of the water, &c. 



Pesca a comagna is carried on with a very fine net called fiorese in the 

 lagoons, for catching grey mullet (cievoli) when feeding': hence the term 

 comagna, a distortion of quando mangia {i.e., when it eats). 



Pescar' a braccio, a fiappar, a palpar, is also a method of fishing in use in 

 the lagoons, and consists in wading in the shallows, and extracting by hand 

 the gobies which are immersed in the mud. This mode is also employed, in 

 mild autumns and winters, for catching flounders and turbots at the heads of 

 channels. 



Pescar colle peche, or orme, or pedate (footsteps), consists in leaving 



