28 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Mr. Elliott gives the following as the dimensions of the pound-boats 

 used in the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio : 



Length feet.. 28 to 31 



Beam do... 8 toll 



Depth do... 2ito 3£ 



Tonnage tons.. 4^ to 7 



Area of foresail, ahout yards . . 75 



Area of mainsail, about do. .. 60 



The Cleveland boat, as represented in Plate 7, is not so wide aft, nor 

 so clumsy as the ordinary form represented in Plate 6. 



The pound-boats in use at Waukegan, Illinois, have no wash-boards 

 and no sails. They have the usual flat bottom, sharp bow, slight flare 

 at the sides, and broad, square stern. The ribs are natural-growth hard- 

 wood knees, and between each frame is a cross-piece on the bottom, from 

 side to side. 



These boats are fitted for rowing, but ordinarily they are towed to 

 and from the pound-net by horses; oars are seldom used except to 

 shove off to the traps after the position of the net is reached, and in like 

 manner return to the shore. 



Seme of the pound -nets are as much as 7 miles from Waukegan, where 

 the catch is marketed. Starting out in the morning, a horse is attached 

 to a long tow-rope, and one man steers the boat with an oar, keeping 

 her far enough off from the beach to prevent her from grounding, and 

 also to keep the rope in the water so that it will not drag on the beach. 



One of the boats had the following dimensions: Length, 25 feet; 

 beam, 8 feet; curve of bottom, 6 inches. 



A pound-boat seen by Mr. Earll at the fishery of A. Booth, Bark 

 River, south of Escanaba, Michigan, was a little over 24 feet long, and 

 about 7 feet beam, the stern was 4J feet wide on top, and 3£ feet wide 

 on the bottom. It had the common flat bottom, sharp bow, with raking 

 stem, and square stern. It had fourteen frames, a stern seat, one thwart 

 about 2 J to 3 feet forward of amidships, and a bow-platform about on a 

 level with the thwart, this being 2£ feet long. Aft there was a platform 

 raised about 6 inches and extending 3| feet forward from the stern. 

 There were three rowlocks, and a notch or scull-hole in the center of 

 the stern to receive the steering-oar. 



15. POUND-NET DINGHY. 



The so-called "pound-net dinkey," or dinghy, is of the sharpie pat- 

 tern, though of a modified form, having a comparatively narrow flat 

 bottom tapering at the ends, and astern much narrower, in proportion, 

 than that of the pound-boat. This boat is 16 to 18 feet in length and 

 about 5 feet wide. It is used very generally by the pound fishermen 

 of the lakes as a u tender," and is propelled wholly by oars. 



