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outer end, and having wings of netting fastened inside the 

 mouth, one on each side, and making a kind of flat funnel- 

 shaped entrance. The fish pass through this opening into 

 the body of the net, which is covered above and below, 

 and after a distance of some few feet, a second pair of 

 wings is arranged in the same manner as the first, but with 

 a narrower opening, through which the fish pass to the 

 next enclosure, where a still narrower space between a 

 third pair of wings leads to the final enclosure where the 

 salmon are practically entrapped. This fly-net is kept in 

 position by means of stakes at the sides and ends, and the 

 leader is placed as with the stake-net ; in fact, some stake- 

 nets are just the same as the fly-net except in not being 

 covered with netting above and below. Both are placed 

 between tide-marks. Another salmon-net which is much 

 used and known as a " bag-net," is exactly like a fly-net in 

 its construction, but is a floating one instead of being on 

 the ground. It is moored to stakes like the other, but with 

 more freedom of motion within certain limits. The bag-net 

 itself is set below low-water mark, the leader extending 

 from it to high-water mark. The "snap-net" is another 

 contrivarice for catching salmon, but not so strictly a trap 

 as those, just noticed. It is worked with two boats, each 

 containing a couple of men, who hold the ends of a straight 

 piece of net of moderate length and depth, which hangs 

 in the water between the boats as they drift down the river, 

 one man in each boat holding the head of the net, and the 

 other the foot. When a salmon strikes the net in running 

 up-stream it is immediately felt by the net-holders, the foot 

 of the net is raised and the fish is secured. A different 

 class of fishing apparatus includes the various contrivances 

 which come under the name of weirs. Their construction 

 depends to some extent on the locality in which they are 



