SEA-FISHERIES LABORATORY. bby 4 
Flounders are taken by stake nets, traw! nets, and many 
have been taken by salmon nets drifting over the banks at 
high-water time. Some few are taken by means of 
‘‘Tees,’’ a method of set-line fishing, but having pins 
instead of hooks. The pins are bent to an obtuse angle, 
and form a toggle when taken by the fluke, they are 
baited with worms (Arenicola), shrimps, cockle, or mus- 
sels. Many are also taken by means of the fluke rake, 
that is, a rake about 3 feet wide with teeth 6 inches 
apart and of the same length, but lineable with the shaft 
and not at right angle to it, as in the ordinary rake. Each 
tooth is barbed on one side, and the rake is used from a 
boat drifting slowly with the current (the drift is regulated 
by a heavy stone to the cable over the centre of the length 
of the boat, and so she is kept broadside to the current), 
by a man probing (‘‘ probbing”’ locally) the rake into the 
sand to a depth of 4 to 5 inches. When he feels any 
extra resistance to the rake entering the sand, he lifts the 
rake above water to see if he has a fish or not. Half 
a hundred weight is not an uncommon catch in a tide by 
this method of fishing. 
The white fluke, being for the most part of its life 
within reach of our fishermen using second class boats, it 
is the fish, above all others, which it would be most 
profitable to hatch and set free in large numbers with the 
view of assisting our local fisheries. 
