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ca 37 m. A line from eacli basket is divided into three sections by five buoy¬ 
lines, two of which are attached to both ends. Each section is again subdivided 
into four by three gangings, the middle of wliich is the longer one. This long 
line is generally worked at night. The long line fishery of tunnies seems to 
have first been tried near the mouth of Tokyo Bay, about three centuries ago, 
and it w r as introduced in recent years to other parts of our country. Formerly 
a peculiar kind of fishing line for tunnies w T as used in the central and western 
parts. The line is about 200 m in length, and is wound round a small barrel, 
leaving about one quarter of the line to hang free. At the end of the free 
portion a hook dressed with a live bait is attached. A boat, with a crew 
of about half a dozen men, carries ten or more lines, which they leave in the 
sea to drift. When a tunny bites the hook, the barrel sinks at once, but as 
the wound part of the line becomes loose, the barrel arises whirling. 
In the bonito fishery rod and line, troll fine, and long line are used, bub 
the first is most extensively used. As bonitos swim near the surface and 
do not descend to deeper strata of water, the fishing with rod and line is 
simple and convenient, no sinkers are used. It is remarkable that fishing of 
bonito with rod and line is done in our country and at Minikoy, a small 
island in the Indian Ocean, in nearly the same way. For the rod a bamboo- 
stem of about seven metres is used. Around the thicker end of the stem a 
string is roughly w r ound to prevent the hand from slipping. The line is 
nearly the same in length as the rod, and about 30 cm of the terminal 
portion is dyed with indigo. The hook lacks the barb, and is dressed with 
living sardine or anchovy. Fishermen hold their rods in such a "way as to 
a low the living bait to swim at the surface of the sea. With artificial bait 
short rods of about three and half metres and a line of 120 cm long and of 
thick diameter are used. While fishing, living fish are thrown as tole bait 
far and near. 
Dbiet Nets. 
Drift nets for different scombroid fishes differ in the size of meshes, depth, 
length, and the thickness of the twine. For small fishes drift nets are gill- 
nets, but for tunnies there is no gill-net. Drift nets for scombroid fishes are 
genera ny worked in warm seasons. Drift nets for tunnies and bonitos are 
