en • MODE^ OF FISHING. 



covers into the net, but being too small for the body to go through, while 

 the gill-covers prevent their withdrawing themselves. These nets are 

 generally set at night, and are as a rule more successful in dark weather. 

 Drift-nets usually have no sinkers, but are worked on a single line, often 

 many hundred yards long, supported along their upper edge by corks or 

 floats, and sunk to the desired distance below the surface. A number 

 connected together are termed a train, drift, or fleet of nets; • the most 

 important are those used for the herring (see vol.* ii, page 221). 



SHOOTING A HEEIIING XET. 



Moored nets are employed in sheltered places for the capture of herrings 

 (vol. ii, page 215), as along the coast of Devonshire and in some Scotch 

 lochs. One form is termed a " bratt-net^'' and is used in the north for the 

 capture gf turbot, hake, skate, &o. 



The trammel is a set or fixed net which is said to derive -its name from 



the Latin "tres. maculEe," or the French " tr 



lailles," " three meshes," 



evidently thus named with reference to the three descriptions of meshes 

 of whicli it is composed (vol i, page 2']). It is shot with the tide generally 



