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the west ; and Carnarvon and Tenby, on the coast of 

 Wales. 



There has been very little [beam trawling on the 

 Scottish coast until within the last very few years; 

 but since the extension of railways on the western 

 side, trawling has been successfully worked on a 

 limited extent of coast, but almost entirely by English 

 fishermen. 



In Ireland the trawling stations for large vessels are 

 Dublin, Waterford, Dingle, and Galway. 



In-shore trawling is carried on by small craft on 

 several parts of the coasts of the three countries, but 

 far less in Scotland than elsewhere. 



THE BEAM-TRAWL. 



I will now give some account of the construction 

 of the trawl, and of the manner in which it is worked. 



The beam-trawl may be simply described as a tri- 

 angular, flat, purse-shaped net, with its wide mouth 

 kept extended by a horizontal wooden spar called the 

 "beam," which is raised a short distance from the 

 ground by two iron supports or " heads " ; the upper 

 part of the mouth of the net being fastened to the 

 beam, and the under portion or lower edge of the 

 opening dragging on the ground as the net is towed 

 over the bottom. 



I will take one of the Brixham trawls as a fair 

 example of this kind of net, and the details I shall 

 now give are taken from such nets as are in ordinary 

 use in this, as it is believed to be, original trawling 

 station. 



