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is all reduced and the fish all taken. If at night, numbers of 

 rock fish are also taken with those that spread in schools, 

 called by Hawaiians ia-hele, whilst rock fish are ia-koa. 



The Nae is the finest of all kinds of net, the nresh being 

 only one-fourth inch. The upena pua is for young mullet fry 

 for stocking ponds or for eating. This net is generally a piece, 

 a fathom square, attached on two sides to sticks about three 

 feet in length and fulled in, the bottom rope- shorter than the 

 upper one and forming an irregular square opening- to a shal- 

 low bag, which is supplemented by a long- narrow bag about 

 three or four inches wide and two feet deep. The sea con- 

 vulvulus generally found growing on the beach is twisted, 

 leaves, branchlets and all, into two thick bushy ropes some 

 fifteen or twenty feet in length, and these are attached on 

 each side of the net to the kuku (side sticks); these lines are 

 then drawn forward in a semi-circle sweeping the shoals of 

 fry before them till enough are partly enclosed, when the two 

 free ends are brought rapidly together in a circle which is 

 gradually reduced, the same as in long- net fishing, till the fry 

 are all driven into the bag. The same mesh, but made into a 

 larger bag is used in fishing for ohua, a small kind of fish very 

 highly prized by natives, which lives in and on the limu kala, 

 a coarse alga that grows on coral in shallow water. Long 

 ropes, one, two, or even three hundred fathoms in length hav- 

 ing dry ki leaves braided on them by the stems, the blade 

 ends of the leaves hanging loose and free, are started from a 

 given place in opposite directions to sweep around and finally 

 enclose a circle which is afterwards reduced in the same man- 

 ner as in long, or pua fishing. Great numbers of men, wo- 

 men aud children assist at this kind of fishing to hold the 

 ropes down to the bottom, and by the splashing and disturb- 

 ance of the limu drive the fish away from the ropes and into 

 the net. Persons are generally stationed every yard or so on 

 the ropes for this purpose and also to disentangle the ropes if 

 caught on a rock or other obstruction. When the circle is 

 narrowed to from ten to fifteen feet in diameter, one end of 

 the ropes is uutied and the ends attached to the ends of the 



