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(see below under gill nets) and is set by stretching it along the 

 seaward edge of vegetation or other shelter in which fish lurk and 

 from which they cannot be taken with other nets. The net may 

 be fastened to stakes or allowed to float in water of about its 

 own depth, where it stands upright like a fence. The fish are 

 then driven from their shelter toward the net, which they strike 

 with such force as to carry the nearly invisible, fine web through 

 the meshes of the coarser webs, so as to form pockets in which 

 the fish are held. The trammel net is easily transported and 

 very effective, especially in slightly turbid water or at night. 



(c) Fyke Nets. A fyke net is made like a seine, but at its middle 

 is left a circular opening bordered by a hoop of wood or iron. To 

 the hoop is attached the pot, a series of truncated cones of netting 

 open at both ends. The smaller end of the first cone leads into 

 the larger end of the second cone and this often into a third. 

 The last cone of the pot is closed at its smaller end by a draw 

 string. Both ends of the lead and cork lines should be tied into 

 loops and the net should be "laid" in a boat (see below under 

 gill nets) and taken to the place of setting together with two stout 

 poles of suitable length, a rope and a heavy stone or other anchor. 

 The loops at one end are slid over a pole which is then thrust or 

 driven into the bottom. The net is then paid out from the boat 

 rowed in the direction in which it is desired to set it. When the 

 pot is reached it is thrown overboard. When the other end of the 

 net is reached it is fastened to a pole set in the bottom in the 

 manner already described, but the net is left quite slack between 

 the two poles. The pot is then picked up, the rope attached to 

 the terminal funnel and the whole pulled usually toward the shore. 1 

 The pull causes the net to bend into a V the wings of which 

 stretch from the pot to the poles. The anchor is now attached to 

 the end of the rope and thrown overboard. If the water is deep 

 a small cord with a float at one end is attached by its opposite 

 end to the anchor line and serves to pull up the anchor line when 

 the pot is to be lifted. The anchor line may be tied back to a 



1 The larger fish usually taken in a fyke are caught as they go from the vegeta- 

 tion zone or beyond it into shoal water. They might be caught as they leave the 

 shoal water by setting the net the other way about. 



