326 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Stecan schooner Royal (rigged model: scale 3 inch to 1 foot): 
The schooner Royal was built at Benicia, Cal., in 1891, and is owned at San Fran- 
cisco. She is a representative of the type of small auxiliary steam schooners 
employed in the Alaskan salmon fishery, and is noticeable for having pole masts and 
a leg-of-mutton mainsail, which are characteristics of schooners fishing in Alaskan 
waters. Long, sharp bow; raking, curved stem; rising floor; medium length of run; 
overhanging, elliptical stern; good sheer; fitted with deck houses; screw propeller, 
and rigged as a two-masted schooner. 
Length, over all, 81 feet; tonnage length, 75 feet; beam, 20.6 feet; depth, 8.2 feet; 
net tonnage, 29.54; nominal horsepower, 20; mainmast, deck to truck, 56 feet; fore- 
mast, deck to truck, 56 feet; bowsprit, outboard, 183 feet; main boom, 44 feet; fore- 
galt, 16 feet. 
New England dori: 
Fully equipped model, with trawl lines, tubs, anchors, oars, ete., for the Bank cod 
fishery. Similar boats are employed in the halibut, shore cod, market, and other 
fisheries. Each vessel carries 3 to 9 dories and 1 or 2 men go in each dory. 
Croatan Sound fishing boat (rigged model: scale, 1 inch to 1 foot): 
Sloop boats of this type are used in large numbers in the gill-net shad fishery of 
Croatan Sound and adjacent waters in North Carolina. Many of them are built 
on Croatan Island. They are well adapted to the shad fishery, being fine sailers 
and easy to row. This is a wooden, carvel-built, open, centerboard boat; long, 
sharp bow; rising floor; long, fine run; raking, V-shaped stern; good shear; a single 
mast; loose-footed, sprit mainsail and jib, the latter tacking down to the stem head. 
Length, over all, 23 feet 6 inches; beam, 7 feet; depth, top of gunwale to keel, 
amidships, 2 feet 6 inches; mast above thwart. 
Pound-net boat: 
Used on Great Lakes in lifting pound and trap nets. 
Nets. 
515. Trish drop net: 
This net is used by the Irish fishermen in Boston and other New England towns 
in capturing perch for the fresh-fish market. 
516. Snap net: Used for catching cunners on the New England coast. 
517. Crab net: Used for catching crabs. 
5172. Terrapin net: Used on the Pacific coast. 
518. Cast nel: 45 feet, five-eighth mesh, mounted. 
Used on Atlantic coast, chiefly for catching shrimp, though also for fishes. 
d19. Cast net: 43 feet, 1} mesh, mounted. 
520. Bag seine (model) : 
Very generally used throughout the country for fishing in shallow water, for taking 
shrimp, herring, mackerel : shad, and for general river fishing. 
521. River seine (model) 
Used in great variety of sizes for inland river and fresh-water fishing. 
522. Purse seine (model): 
This represents the style of purse seine in general use on the Atlantic coast and 
Gulf of Mexico for taking mackerel and menhaden. They are made in lengths from 
180 to 250 fathoms and from 8 to 20 fathoms deep. For mackerel the mesh is com- 
monly 1f or 2 inches and for menhaden a larger variety is used, running from 1? to 
2? inches. They are made of a light cotton twine, graded from a very small size on 
the ends to a heavier and a stronger size in bunt. 
523. Minnow seine: 
For taking bait, small fish, ete. Mesh one-half inch. Loaned by the American 
Net and Twine Company, Boston. 
524. Capelin seine (model): 
Used in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Labrador, and Newfoundland fisheries; 
20 to 75 fathoms long and 2 to 8 fathoms deep. The mesh is graduated from three- 
fourths inch in bunt to 2 inches on end of arms. When launce are to be taken a 
three-eighths-inch mesh bunt is put into the center of the seine. 
