THE PUTTING-NET. 



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ever, can be carried on successfully only when the tides 

 are tolerably high. The total product of the campaign 

 will not exceed 480 to 750 Ibs. each person. 



NORMAN WOMEN FISHING FOR SHRIMPS. 



The putting-net "bouqueton," "truble," or "huxenau," 

 as it is variously called is made exactly after the fashion 

 of the net in use among our English shrimp-fishers. 



At Saiiit-G-illes-sur-Vic, in the department of La 

 Vendee, the process adopted is very different. Here the 

 net employed locally termed a " ret " (from the Latin 

 rete ?) has no handle, and the opening is circular. It 

 may be likened to one of the old-fashioned night-caps 

 with which our forefathers disguised themselves, and 

 forms a pocket or pouch, twenty to twenty-four inches in 

 length, and fifty to sixty inches in circumference at the 



