APPARATUS USED IN CAPTURING FISH. 



LOCATION OF 



TRAPS, WEIRS, AND 

 UNITED STATES. 



POUNDS, IN THE 



I have tbus indicated briefly the principal devices by which fishes are 

 captured in the United States/ without attempting to represent all the 

 individual modifications. The variety in the construction of traps, weirs, 



and pounds, is 

 almost endless, 

 depending very 

 nuich upon the ex- 

 posure, the nature 

 of the bottom, the 

 depth of water, the 

 currents, the kind 

 offish to betaken, 

 &c. I have given 

 enough to ilkis- 

 trate the extent to 

 which the simpler 

 devices of the 

 spear, the bow and 

 arrow, and the 

 hook, have been 

 replaced by appa- 

 ratus for a more 

 wholesale destruc- 

 tion. 



As already re- 

 marked, the sea- 

 coast weirs or 

 l)ounds are used 

 almost exclusively 

 east of Connecti- 

 cut, although fixed 

 nets are in opera- 

 tion in or near the 

 rivers of that State 

 as well as of New 

 York, principally 

 for the capture of 

 shad. The accom- 

 panying diagram 

 (Fig. 19) is a plan 

 of the traps at Sea- 

 connet Point, on 

 the eastern side of 

 Narraganset Bay,^ 

 as furnished by Mr. 

 Southwick, and 

 the details of 

 which are given on 

 page 260 



Fig. 19. 



PlaiLof Ti-aps at Sauglikoimet- 

 Point, is'arragaiiset Uaj'.. 



O C IE ^ ^ 

 In the large map of the south side of New England, accorn^ 



i I am indebted to Dr. H. C. Yarrow for the account of an ingenious method employed 

 in New York Harbor for trapping the Morrhnapriunosa, {'' Tom-cod,") and whiciidoes not 

 come under any of the classes of fishing referred to in the preceding i)ages. 



A sufficient quantity of good rye or wlieat straw is gathered into a sheaf and firmly 



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