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MODERN SEA FISHING 



bottom. Many visitors to the seaside have doubtless seen 

 these nets used for encircling mackerel during the summer 

 months. 



It is a curious fact that in the early part of the century 

 the use of the seine net for encircling shoals of herrings was 

 so much opposed in Scotland by the drift-net fishermen that 

 Parliament actually prohibited its employment. The fact seems 



SHORE SEINE OR SCRINGE 



to have been not that the herring fisheries were in any way- 

 injured by the nets, or seine trawls, as they were called, but 

 that the enormous takes of herrings which were sometimes 

 made by their means glutted the market from time to time, 

 and reduced fish to a price which was anything but pleasant to 

 the drift-net fishermen whose takes were more regular. A royal 

 commission sat and inquired, and for once in a while some- 



