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(Myopotamus coypus.) (14) Common Seal (Phoca vitulind), by the Committee. (15) Beavers 

 (Castor canadbnsis), by the Marquis of Bute. 



1048. SEVERN FISHERY BOARD. J. W. WILLIS BUND, Chairman. 

 Nets (MoveaUe.) (1) Clenching Net. This net is used chiefly in floods to take fish that have 

 found their way into any ditch or backwater. It is one of the most poaching nets used. (2) 

 Eel Net. These nets are fixed across the river in the summer and autumn to catch eels, 

 migrating seawards. They fish the middle of the river, the bottom line on the bed of 

 the stream, the top a few feet below the surface, so as to let the rubbish pass over. 

 They are only used when the water is high and discoloured. (3) Beating Net. Net used 

 by fishermen in the freshwater. It is fastened round a bush or tree, and the water inside 

 the net beaten with poles, the fish trying to escape get caught in the net. It is a trammel 

 or armoured Net. (4) Lave Net. Net used by fishermen used in the estuary to take salmon 

 on the sands in the shallow water. (5) Shrimp Net. Net used on the sands for taking 

 shrimps and small fish. Nets (Fixed). ' (6) Stop Net. Net used in the tidal portion of the 

 river. Fish ascending or descending the river strike against it. The string is pulled, 

 and the fish caught in a bag. (7) Sprat Nets. Nets fixed to stakes in the tidal part of 

 the river in the autumn and winter months to take sprats coming down on the ebb tide. 

 Fixed Engine. (8) Putchers. Engines used in the Bristol Channel for catching Salmon. 

 They are fixed in certain places in ranks, and the tide forces the fish into them. (9) Putts 

 No. 1. These Putts are used at the Count Rocks, Oldbury, Gloucestershire, for taking salmon, 

 shrimps, and various kinds of fish. The smaller fish get carried by the tide into the narrow 

 part of the Putts. The large fish are prevented passing the Putts, and generally found in 

 pools near them, (10) Putts No. 2. These putts are used on the mud near the New Passage 

 Gloucestershire, for taking shrimps, small soles and sea fish. Occasionally salmon are taken 

 in them, but only under exceptional circumstances. (11) Weels used on the apron of Weirs 

 for taking Lamperns. Lamperns ascend the river in large numbers in the autumn and winter 

 during a fresh, and then baskets are placed on the Weirs with their mouth down stream, and 

 the lamperns find their way into them. (12) Eel Putchons. These are the ordinary eel 

 baskets that are baited and placed in the river during the spring and summer months for eels. 

 (13) Hard Weels. Large baskets in which eels and lamperns are kept alive until sold. (14) 

 Coracles. Boats used on the Upper Severn and Welch Kivers by the fishermen. (15) Model 

 of Trunk or Well Coat. The usual mode of keeping fish alive is by placing them in one of the 

 wells. Fish Passes. (16) Plan and section of Fish Pass at Glenhafron on the Severn ; 

 example of a Pool Pass. (17) Plan and section of Fish Pass at Milford near Newtown, 

 Montgomeryshire. (18) Plan and section of Fish Pass at Penarth Weir on the Severn. 

 (19) Plan of Fish Pass at Powick Weir, Worcestershire. (20) Plan of Grating at Abertanat, 

 Montgomeryshire, to prevent fish descending Canal. (21) Model of same. (22) Plan of 

 Grating at Brinfield, Shropshire. (23). Old Plan of the Fixed Engine in the Severn Estuary 

 before 1865. (24) Photograph of an ancient mode of fishing declared illegal in 1861, carried 

 on at Dolanog, Montgomeryshire, on the Verniew. 



1049- THOMAS, E. C. G., National Club, Whitehall. (1) Model of 

 Harbour for fishery purposes, consisting of a floating breakwater or outer harbour, as an 

 anchorage at all times of tide and weather ; an inner harbour with wharves, the sea walls so 

 placed as to form a well-defined entrance, and constructed in such a form as to admit additional 

 wave water, and thus make the outgoing tide completely overcome the incoming one in its 

 action on the bar at the mouth of any river or creek. This action, aided by the automatic 

 submarine dredge, permanently sweeps away the bar and prevents it from reforming. (2) 

 Model of Greenway Breakwater sheltering a lighthouse, and giving access to them at all times. 

 Thus preventing the chance of the starvation of the men and extinction of the lights as almost 

 occurred recently at three of the most important lighthouses Calf, Wolf, and Eddystonel 

 (3) Model of Greenway Breakwater as supplementing existing harbour works, protecting the 

 existing stone piers, and thus obviating the necessity for frequent repairs as at Wick (where 

 the sea overturned a massive coping of 800 tons in one block), Plymouth, &c., creating an 

 additional outer-anchorage. (4) Electric Motor Wave Apparatus and Tank, for showing the 

 action of waves in motion on the Greenway Breakwater, with Model of Fishery Harbour and 

 Lighthouse protected by the breakwater. 



1050. RIVERSIDE DANISH MILITARY AND PISHING TENT 

 (next to Flamingo Pond). 



1051. ALLEN, EDWARD ELLIS, 111 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Fisher- 

 man's Cottage constructed on new principle of corrugated iron or zinc, with wood lining. 



1052. PARRETT, Forest Hill and Brockley. Kustic Arbours, &o. 



1053. MOLONEY, CAPTAIN ALFRED, C.M.G., Westerford, Church 

 Road, Richmond, Surrey. (1) Native Fishing Pot from Lagos, West Africa. (2) Scoop for 

 bailing out Canoe. (3) Fishing Line of native manufacture, with specimen of fibre of which 

 made, and stone substitute for sinking lead, Lagos, Gold Coast Colony, West Africa. 



