[199] FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 1023 



Salmon -weir. 



Model, scale 1 inch to 8| feet. Heart -shape bowl and pocket; 

 leader extending from mouth of weir; made of netting held in 

 position by anchored stakes. Length of bowl or bunt, 2 feet; 

 width, 6 inches; leaders, 15 inches long. Dennis Kiver, Maine. 

 12,106. Collected by Prof. S. F. Baird. 



Pound-net of Lake Michigan. 



Model, scale 1 inch to 3J feet. Made of netting and held in posi- 

 tion by stakes driven into the bottom. The outer bowl, which 

 is square, has netting on the bottom, and is hung to the stakes 

 by lings so that it can be easily handled ; inner bowl heart- 

 shape, with no bottom, hung with rings to stakes. Outer bowl, 

 11 inches square; leaders, 13 inches long. Models of stake- 

 driver, boat, dip-net, fish-house, with cleaning troughs, &c, also 

 shown. Waukegan, 111., 1876. 25,750. Gift of D. D. Par- 

 malee. 



Bass-trap. 



Model, scale half-inch to foot. Made of netting held in position by 

 driven stakes. Consists of two bowls, one rectangular and 

 one heart-shape, with shore leader. Length without leader, 

 40 inches; leader, 24 inches long. Noank, Conn., 1876. 25,704. 

 Gift of Charles T. Potter. Used in Peconic Bay and Fisher's 

 Island Sound. 



photographs and drawings illustrative of the trap-fishery. 



Herring- weir. 



Photographic view of a brush-weir, locally known as " whirlpool 

 weir," built for catching small herring to be sold as sardines in 

 Eastport. The picture is taken at half-ebb tide, and shows a 

 sandy beach, toward which tlie fish are drawn in a seine when 

 the weir is being fished. Size, 8 by 10 inches. Deer Island, 

 N. B., 1882. (199f) 1,900. U. S. Fish Commission. 



Herring- weir. 



Photographic view of a brush- weir, locally known as "Tinker's Isl- 

 and weir," built for catching small herring to be sold to the 

 sardine canneries. The weir is shown at low water, with a 

 sardine steamer, which is employed in carrying the fish to the 

 factories, in the background. Size, 8 by 10 inches. Tinker's 

 Island, near Eastport, Me., 1882. (150) 1876. U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission. 



