FISH AND FISHERIES. 149 
At the Fisheries Office, Garden Palace, there are now on view some 
of the fishing implements used in other parts of the world. They were. 
obtained by the Commissioners of Fisheries, with the objects of testing 
the applicability of the modes of fishing practised in some parts of the 
Continents of Europe and America to the fisheries of this Colony, and 
of affording to our fishermen an opportunity of acquainting themselves 
with the necessary appliances. Amongst the articles referred to, and 
which can be inspected by persons interested, will be found the follow- 
ing :—A purse seine, such as is used in the menhaden fishery on the 
Maine coast, North America ; a trawl net, with beam, complete, as used 
by the Grimsby fishermen; a drift net of the kind used in the herring 
fishery, Scotland ; a bultow, or set line, used by the French fishermen at 
Newfoundland ; a set line, used by the Norwegian cod-fishers in the 
North Sea ; glass baits and floats, in use in the Norwegian fisheries; an 
otter trawl net, a trammel net. In addition to these are a set of boat 
fittings for working the menhaden purse seine; also, a pair of woollen 
nippers, not well known to any but American fishermen; they are used 
in ‘hauling the bultow. Herr Von Behr, President of the German 
Fischerei Verein, said in regard to these nippers that, though insignificant 
in appearance and simple in contrivance, they deserved to rank amongst 
the most important of the American exhibits at Berlin. It is possible 
they may be utilized in the deep sea fishing on this coast. 
