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SHRIMP NET. 



Shrimp nets are of various forms, to suit the 

 localities in which you intend to search for prawns 

 or shrimps. The net shown on Plate V, No. 3, 

 is the kind most generally used when the edges 

 of the weedy foreshores of estuaries are to be 

 shrimped ; it is made of wood, and consists of a nar- 

 row plank in front, about four or five feet in 

 length, to the centre of which a pole is fastened to 

 form the handle ; it is so arranged that the plank 

 in front always has its edge in such a position as 

 to scrape along the ground and secure anything 

 which may happen to be on the surface ; from 

 either end of the plank a stout willow rod is bent 

 round so as to form a bow, and is then inserted 

 in the pole, as shown in the sketch; to the 

 hinder margin of the plank and all along the 

 bent willows the net is secured so as to hang 

 loosely, and is terminated with a long bag, named 

 a purse, into which, in their attempts to escape, 

 all the fish that are captured are carried by the 

 water, which, from the force with which the net is 

 pushed forward, forms quite a current. Another 



