BEAM-TRAWL. 



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The Beam.-Trawl is in very considerable and still increasing use around 

 the British coasts for the purpose of obtaining ground-fish of prime 

 commercial importance, as turbot, soles, and brill, as well as for capturing 

 inferior sorts, as gurnards, haddock, whiting, plaice, skates,, and rays. 

 Sailmg boats can be employed when a sufficiency of wind exists, for it is 

 necessary to go rather faster than the tide, but steam-trawlers have the 

 advantage of. being independent of the necessity for wind in' working their 

 vessels. The rapid advance in beam-trawling during the last fifty years 

 has been greatly assisted by the introduction of steam, icej and railways, 

 thus not only enabling more of the finny tribes to be captured, but likewise 



BEAM-TBAWLINS. 



