232 THE RELATIONS OF THE STATE WITH 



pursued rather as a profitable amusement on " off days," than 

 as a regular means of livelihood, at least in those localities 

 where either trawling or drift-net fishing by means of crews 

 is carried on. In pilchard seining the " huer " from an emi- 

 nence "cries " (compare "hue and cry") out the position of the 

 approaching shoals. The " seine-net " boat and the " stop- 

 net " boat leave. the shore at the same point. The " seine " 

 boat completes three-fourths or more of the circumference 

 of a circle, and meets the "stop-net" boat, which has 

 accomplished the remainder. The nets are then joined. 

 The " stop-net " boat shoots its net and then makes for the 

 shore, that the escape of the fish between the point of junc- 

 ture and the coast may be prevented. The " seine " boat 

 shooting its net circumvents the fish, and, retracing its 

 circle, completes it by meeting the stop-net boat on the 

 shore. The master seiner, in a small boat or "lurker," 

 directs the operations, and the fish remain in the netted 

 area until taken out from day to day as required by the 

 curers. The six " stems " or divisions of St. Ives Bay, 

 together with their use, in turn allotted exclusively to seine 

 fishers, will fall beneath remarks on " principles " of fishery 

 legislation, rather than beneath those merely " descriptive " 

 of the modus operandi in fishing. 



In Lining, hundreds of hooks, each carefully baited chiefly 

 for carnivorous fish of the third class, are attached indivi- 

 dually by a short line, called a " snood," to a main line of a 

 mile or more in length. This is anchored at the further 

 end, and, at intervals, in the sea buoys indicate its course ; 

 the other end is fastened in the boat, to which it is from 

 time to time hauled. 



The Use of fixed engines little concerns the present 

 subject. These are principally " stow-nets " fixed beneath 

 a boat, or "garths," or "weirs" (the kydelli of Art. 33 of 



