FISHING INDUSTRY OF KRIAN AND KURAU, PERAK, IOI 

 Pukat Lengkong (seine net), 



Boat 



This net is from 80 to 100 fathoms long and 2 fathoms 

 deep ; it has floats atong the top, and one large one attach- 

 ed to the centre of the top edge F by a two-fathom line ; the 

 bottom is weighted with tin. The big float (polompong) is 

 first thrown overboard. The net is put out at ebb tide ; one 

 end is held by a large boat, and a small boat takes the other 

 end round to the big boat, encircling the fish. The leads 

 must be on the ground, or the fish escape underneath. When 

 hauling the net into the boat, a man goes overboard and gets 

 inside the net to tend the leads, see they do not get foul of 

 sticks, &c, and let the fish out. The mesh is about \ inch, 

 and all kinds of fish and prawns are caught, though the large 

 kinds are thus caught but seldom, as they frequent the deeper 

 waters. Five men are required to work it. 



