io8 MAKING A FISHERY. 



Netting by On some waters the lessor undertakes the 



bssor not 



satisfactory. payment and consequently the direction of the 

 keepers, and the tenant is usually told that the 

 length he rents has been thoroughly netted on 

 certain days during his absence. Sometimes it 

 is delicately suggested that he should give a 

 gratuity to the keeper to be distributed among 

 the men working the nets, and sometimes even 

 he is coolly asked to pay for the extra labour. 

 If he is liberal and moderately easy going, he 

 frequently accedes to this request under the 

 pleasing delusion that the work has been well 

 and effectually done. If he had only been 

 present he would have seen how a single net had 

 been raced down stream as fast as the men could 

 travel and, without any stop net being fixed, 

 periodically hauled out. If he had the oppor- 

 tunity of contrasting this with real good work 

 carried out with two nets dragged down slowly 

 to a stop net, he might have some idea of the 

 miserable sham for which he had been induced 

 to pay. 



A curious illustration of this occurred to me 

 some short time since. A local under-keeper, 

 out of situation, called on me to get appointed 

 to a vacant post on a water I was superintending. 

 He told me that he had been fisherman, as he 

 called it, for some years on an adjoining 

 property, that he was a native of the place,. and 



