DIP AND GILL NETS 



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mounted on wooden or wire rings, and, where necessary, 

 baited, are commonly used abroad for taking small 





Fig. 213. — Dip Nets. 



fishes in shallow water ; such a net, a fathom in dia- 

 meter, ought not to cost more than 15s. or so, and 

 larger nets in proportion. 



3. FIXED NETS. 



Gill Nets.— The simplest form of fixed net is the 

 gill net, or splash net, which is simply a net of suitable 

 mesh for the capture of the fish, mounted very slack 

 on the head and ground ropes. The ends of the net 

 are made fast to some fixed object or anchored, their 

 positions, where necessary, being marked by buoys. 

 The head rope carries sufficient corks or glass floats to 

 keep it at the surface, and the bottom rope must be 

 sufficiently weighted to hold the bottom. A gill net 

 will, of course, only catch such fish as are of a size to 



