52 FISH—CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
The haddock trawls are often set in rough weather, and at 
times when there is what would be called a strong whole-sail 
breeze, and, occasionally, when it blows hard enough to make it 
necessary to reef the sails. After the trawls have been set and 
the vessel worked back to the weather buoys, if the weather 
looks at all threatening it is customary to take the bonnet out of 
the jib and put a reef in the mainsail, so thatif the wind should 
increase while the trawls are being hauled, the vessel can be 
managed by the skipper and the cook—the only men left on 
board. 
As might be expected, men are sometimes lost in this method 
of fishing, the losses being occasioned by sudden snow storms, 
which cut the dories off from the view of those on board of the 
vessel, or by heavy squalls, which render it impossible for the 
schooner with only two men on board to go through the neces- 
sary evolutions. 
It should be stated that the evolution of setting under sail is — 
varied at different times and by different skippers, but that the 
differences in the manner of performing the evolutions are not 
of much importance, and that the most common method is that 
which is here described. 
When fishing on George’s Bank the Gloucester haddock ves- 
sels are obliged by the force of the tide to resort to another 
method of setting, which is called “ double-banking the trawl.” 
The tide is so strong that the trawls cannot be set in the ordi- 
nary way, for the buoys would be carried beneath the surface. 
‘Two dories are therefore lowered at once, and jointly perform 
the act of setting ; only two tubs are set by each pair of dories. 
The set is made in the following manner: The men in one of 
the dories hold fast to the weather-buoy while the men in the 
other dory set the trawl. After the trawl is out, the dory which 
sets it holds fast to the lee buoy until by some signal, such as 
lowering the jib, the skipper of the schooner gives the order to 
haul. The trawls are left on the bottom fifteen or twenty min- 
utes before they are hauled. The men in the two dories begin 
to haul simultaneously. The anchors are thus first raised from 
the bottom, and presently the bight of the trawl and the two 
