JUST HOW THE FISH ARE CAUGHT Ji 



berths to-morrow morning." During the night, how- 

 ever, a southerly wind brought in two schooners, and 

 during the hours of darkness these secured the prize 

 while the others slept. 



The " cod-seine " ranks second in importance 

 among nets in Labrador. It is of prodigious size, 

 up to 600 feet deep, requiring twelve men to work 

 it, and is used either to bar an inlet, or to shoot 

 round a shoal of cod in deep water. The seine 

 master stands, fish-glass in hand, high on the bow 

 of the seine skiff, as his stalwart crew, with eight 

 huge pine oars, drive the boat along, perhaps hour 

 after hour. The vast net is piled up on the stern, 

 while one man stands on the thwarts, steering with 

 his oar like an Italian gondolier. Suddenly " Easy 

 all ! " is cried ; " Hold her up ! " and the seine master 

 peers down into the water with his glass. A school 

 of fish is on the bottom. Swiftly the net anchor is 

 dropped, and the net is paid out astern as the will- 

 ing backs bend to the oars and force the skiff round 

 and home to the starting place, marked by a gaily- 

 painted buoy. Thus the whole school are enclosed. 

 Now the weighted foot rope is "gathered" together, 

 the net has become one vast bag, and the prisoners 

 are dealt with as before, i.e. dipped out and bagged 

 off. 



The gill net is rarely used in Labrador now. In 

 Norway it is still a favourite method. Twenty to 

 twenty-four nets, eighty feet long and about fifty feet 

 deep, are " shot " in water of from twenty to sixty 



