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smaller pound, outside and in continuation of the 

 larger one, the space occupied by it lying between the 

 limits of low water at the neap and spring tides. The 

 obstruction to boat navigation, however, along the 

 coasts where the nets were used, and the danger arising 

 from the stakes extending so far out, and more or less 

 covered by the water at about high tide, have led the 

 Board of Trade to discourage the use of the outer 

 kettle-nets, and to some extent of the inner ones also ; 

 for the setting up of these nets not only causes an ob- 

 struction to navigation, but completely monopolizes 

 the whole extent of shore where they are used, and 

 entirely prevents the sean nets being advantageously 

 employed there. The kettle net is likewise a less 

 generally profitable means of fishing than the seans ; the 

 former catches the fish when they go into the pound ; 

 but with the seans it is frequently possible to surround 

 a shoal of fish which might otherwise escape ; and the 

 best policy in all regulations of fisheries is that which 

 leads to the largest supply of useful fish to the general 

 markets. 



TRAMMEL OR SET NETS. 



Two kinds of net are spoken of under these names, 

 but they both are anchored or set when in use, and fish 

 of various kinds become entangled in, or tramelled by, 

 them. The real trammel, however, is peculiar in being 

 made up of three nets or distinct sets of meshes, as is 

 shown by its name, which in modern French is tr email 



