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about 45 yards long and 20 score deep. The ordinary 

 lugger's net will be about 22 yards long and 10 to 12 

 score deep. Foreign fishermen will usually have a net 

 very similar to our luggers' nets in size and depth, they 

 being often of British manufacture. The Dutch, perhaps, 

 are an exception, their nets being very large and heavy, 

 resembling more nearly the Scotch nets in size. 



Mackerel nets. The foregoing description of a herring net will apply to 

 a mackerel net, with the exception that mackerel nets are 

 always swum, and have, of course, a much larger mesh.* 



Foreign nets. The nets of the Norwegian and Swedish drifters are now 

 made similar to the Scotch, owing to their having sent 

 inspectors to learn the methods employed by the Scotch 

 people in the herring fishery. 



The Dutch herring net is a very large heavy net, the 

 average size is 36 yards long, and 1 6 yards deep, of stout 

 cotton, and is always of a large-sized mesh, about 34 or 36 

 to the yard, otherwise in principle there is no difference 

 of note. The length of their fleet of nets is shorter than 

 that of any other craft, owing to the enormous depth and 

 weight of the nets. A French herring net more nearly 

 resembles in every way an English east coast net, though 

 it is generally deeper. There is no law to regulate 

 the size of the mesh of these nets. Formerly there was one, 

 but it was repealed as impracticable. 



Pilchard nets. Pilchard drift-nets as used on the Cornish coast are similar 

 to herring nets (English east coast) and are not regulated 

 in any way by law as to mesh. These fish are also taken 

 by seine-nets. 



Deep sea trawling is prosecuted the whole year round on 



* The size of the mesh varies in different localities as the size of the 

 fish varies. There is no law regulating the mesh of mackerel nets. 



