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The traditioo here is, that it is only seen just after or during- a 

 heavy storm, when the disturbed waters, perhaps drive it 

 away from its natural haunts. 



There are two general divisions of the kinds of nets in use 

 here, the upena-paloa, long nets and the bag or purse nets, 

 with endless variations of those two main features. The finest 

 of the upena-paloa or long nets is a mesh one half inch wide 

 called nukunukuaula. It is generally a fathom and a half in 

 depth, and from forty to sixty fathoms in length. It is used 

 to surround and catch the small mullets and awas in shallow 

 waters for the purpose of stocking fish ponds. Small pebbles 

 frequently ringed or pierced are used for sinkers and pieces of 

 the hau, ( Hibiscus Ttliaceus), and kukui (candle nut tree) for 

 the floaters. Upena-paloa of one to two inch mesh are used 

 for the larger mullets, awa weke, and pau-u-lua. A two to 

 two and a half inch gill net is called upena hoolewalewa, or 

 upena apoapo, accordiug to the use to which it is put. The 

 upena hoolewalewa (hanging net) is stretched from a given 

 point to another at high tide, and always- across what they 

 call fish-runs in shallow waters, which a long sandy opening 

 in coral places. Two, or sometimes one person, work this 

 net, passing backward and forward, to seaward of the net, 

 taking out fish as fast as caught in the meshes. This way of 

 fishing is only practised at night. For upena apoapo, a place 

 where fish are seen or are likely to be, is surrounded and 

 the water inside the circle beaten, when the frightened fishes 

 dart in every direction with great violence and are meshed. 

 The upena oio is a long net of three to four inch mesh, used 

 for catching oio, kala, nenue and large awa-kalamoho. It 

 is of eighty, one hundred, one hundred and forty to one hun- 

 dred and fifty fathoms in length by two to three fathoms in 

 depth, it is used in the deeper waters, just inside, or in shallow 

 waters just outside, the reef or breakers. For oio fishing the 

 fishermen go in canoes, one man called the kilo (lookout) is 

 always standing upright on the cross bars of the canoe, keep- 

 ing a sharp lookout for a school of oio. When he sees one, 

 the canoes follow it at a distance from place to place, or wait 



