216 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
ing goes on night and day, the nets being lifted from time to time, as 
occasion requires, and the fish taken out. 
Seine fishing is carried on upon the bars that are covered at high 
water, and can not be prosecuted at full flood. It is necessary at such 
times for the men and horses to go on board the scows aud wait until 
the tide has ebbed sufficiently to enable them to work. The time of 
beginning varies somewhat at the different reaches, depending upon the 
depth of water at the stations at high tide. As soon as the beach or 
bar uncovers, so that the men can successfully wade about with their 
long legged rubber boots, operations begin. The most successful time 
for fishing is when the flood tide begins to run in. It is then practicable 
to set against the tide, so that the salmon running in with the current 
will be stopped by the shore end of the seine first thrown over, while 
the crew^of 5 or 6 men in the seine boat are running out and getting on 
shore the other end of the net. 
A dory works in conjunction with the seine boat. In the dory is placed 
a short section of seine, or the end which is first to be thrown into the 
water. The location having been determined upon for setting the net, 
the seine-boat and dory take their positions near each other, the former 
headed offshore and the smaller boat headed toward the bar or beach 
where the haul is to be made. At the proper time the two crews begin 
to throw out the seine. The larger boat pulls offshore at first, circling 
around against the current, so that the net will nearly form a semicircle, 
with its convex side reaching out into the river, the first end on the bar, 
and the last end thrown out being some distance offshore. The men in 
the dory start directly for shore, as has been stated, and as soon as the 
short length of net which they have is thrown over they run out as rap- 
idly as possible and haul in on the shore line, which is attached to the 
end of the seine, one man attending to the landing of the boat. 
The object is to get the shore end of the net near the bar as quickly 
as practicable, and in this endeavor it is not uncommon for the men to 
jump overboard, even when the water is up to their waists, and begin 
to haul in on the line, dragging the seine shoreward. -When this end 
of the net is near the shore the sweep of its curve forms a barrier to the 
progress of fish going up the river, and holds them until the shore line 
from the other end of the apparatus is landed. As soon as this is done 
one or more horses are hitched to the line and begin to pull in the net, 
and as it comes in there is an effort made to work it against the current 
as much as practicable. While one horse is pulling in another is going 
out. In this way the horses are being hitched on one after the other, so 
that there may be a continuous pull on the seine. 
These drag seines are heavy, and being set against the current, as 
they are, are difficult to manage. It is necessary, however, that all 
expedition should be used in order to prevent the escape of salmon 
either by jumping over the cork line or finding some outlet beneath the 
