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thing came of it, for the exceedingly stupid legislation on the 

 subject was repealed. 



Seine nets for sand-eels are illustrated on p. 118. 



Yacht-owners very frequently, and with great wisdom, carry 

 lobster and prawn pots. These also are dealt with in a separate 

 chapter. 



I think yachtsmen who do not fish for the market might 

 very well limit their use of nets to capturing just so much food 

 as they require for the table or for their friends or for scientific 

 purposes. By exclusive or indiscriminate netting they run the 

 risk of injuring not only the livelihood of the poorer classes of 

 fishermen who own small open boats and set their lines near 

 the shore, but also the comparatively new branch of angling 

 which unquestionably will, in the course of time, take thousands 

 from our overstocked rivers and lakes, and provide them with 

 inexpensive, healthy and profitable amusement off our coasts. 



I have to acknowledge the loan by Mr. Hearder, of Ply- 

 mouth, of trawl and trammel nets, floating trot, &c., from which 

 the illustrations in this chapter were made. 



Note. Only a few days before the publication of this book, 

 and therefore too late for more than this short notice, there 

 appears a most important report on ' Trawling in the North 

 Sea,' with special reference to the destruction of immature fish, 

 by E. W. L. Holt. It is issued as a special number of the 

 ' Journal ' of the Marine Biological Association, and I earnestly 

 commend it to the attention of all those interested in the pre- 

 servation of sea fish. 



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