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Net-reels — Continued. 



as they are landed, are wound upon them, where they dry very 

 quickly. Size, 30 by 40 inches. Enlarged by an electric light 

 from an 8 by 10 negative. Alpena, Mich., 1882. (782) 2,237. 

 U. S. Fish Commission. 



North Carolina sturgeon camp. 



A crayon sketch showing a barge with small shanties at either end, 

 and a crew of sturgeon fishermen engaged in killing sturgeon 

 to be iced for shipment to New York. The sturgeon are usu- 

 ally caught in gill-nets and brought to the camp, where they 

 are tied by the tail to stakes driven in the mud along the river 

 bank and kept until butchering day arrives. They are then 

 killed, the tails being first chopped off, after which the heads, 

 viscera, and skins are removed, and the fish packed in ice to 

 cool. The following morning they are repacked in boxes, 

 loaded on a small vessel, and carried to the steamboat- wharf 

 for shipment. Size 30 by 40 inches. Washington, D. C, 1882. 

 Henry W. Elliott. 



Gill-net fishing. 



Photograph of John Connelly hauling herring-nets into a dory. 

 Size, 8 by 10 inches. Taken at Rockport, Mass., September, 

 1882. (57) 1,829. U. S. Fish Commission. 



Overhauling herring-nets. 



Photograph of Frank Marble and John Hodgdon, just returned 

 from herring-fishing, overhauling their nets in the dory, which 

 is stranded on Mles's Beach. Size, 8 by 10 inches. Gloucester, 

 Mass., 1882. (475) 2,034. U. S. Fish Commission. 



Herring net-fishing. 



Photographic view of fishermen engaged in fishing with herring 

 gill-nets from Irish boat; showing the method of hauling and 

 picking. Size, 8 by 10 inches. Gloucester, Mass., 1882. (437) 

 2,006. U. S. Fish Commission. 



Herring net-fishing. 



Photograph of schooner Valiant, of Friendship, Me., sailing out of 

 Portland Harbor, with all of her apparatus and outfit, for en- 

 gaging in the herring fishery with gill-nets, at Wood Island, 

 Me. Many of the small vessels along the coast of Maine go 

 to Portland to fit out for this fishery. Size, 8 by 10 inches. 

 Taken at the mouth of Portland Harbor, 1882. (129) 1,866. U. 

 S. Fish Commission. 



