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different. At sea it is employed by two boats, 

 which carry the net between them. When the 

 latter is to be " shot," the boats separate and pull 

 away from each other, describing a circle, and 

 putting the net overboard as they go. The latter 

 is thus put into the water in the form of a circular 

 vertical wall of netting, which surrounds the shoal 

 of fish. The ends are united, and the net as it 

 now stands is slowly towed shorewards till the 

 bottom touches ground, and the fish are secure. 

 They are then removed from the larger seine by 

 a special mode of using a small seine. Sometimes 

 the seine is used from the shore ; one end is 

 retained there, while a boat, with the other, pulls 

 out to sea and describes a semicircle, " shooting " 

 the net as it goes. The latter, with its enclosed 

 fish, is then hauled on shore. 



Inshore Fishing. This latter method of seine- 

 netting brings us to the consideration of the 

 methods of the inshore or longshore men. Many 

 of these are seiners, working as described above. 

 Then there are comparatively small sailing boats 

 using beam-trawls in the method indicated, but 

 in relatively shallow water and within the three- 

 mile territorial limit. Sea-fish are also largely 

 taken round the British coasts by various kinds 

 of " fixed engines." Such fixed engines, so called 

 in contradistinction to the movable fishing 

 engines such as trawls are fishing weirs, 

 stake nets, trammel nets, and various other forms 



