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Long Line Tunny Fishing. 
A scene at the entrance of the Bay of Tokyo. Two men are | 
working in the cord by hand, and another is aiming the lance at 
the fish. 
Tunny Hooks. 
A collection of hooks used in various parts of Japan. 
all made of brass castings. 
Tunny Pound-net (with a watch-tower). 735. 
This is a fixed net made of straw on a large scale and with great 
art. It is used at the extremities of wooded promontories in the 
vicinity of Nagasaki. It consists of two principal parts, the leader 
and the bowl. ‘The leader which is set near the coast has one foot 
meshes. In the bowl the meshes at first are also about one foot, 
but become smaller as they approach that portion which is made 
of ropes of straw. The net is fixed by stones, some of which are 
attached to the lower margin of the barrier, and others are put into 
nets and suspended by ropes of straw from the floats consisting of 
bundles of bamboo tied to the upper margin of the net. The leader 
is about 1150 ft. long and 20 ft. high, while the bowl is about 
350 ft. long and 280 ft. wide. Two watchmen are always placed 
on a watch-tower to keep a lookout. When the fish enter the 
bowl along the barrier, a net which is placed at the entrance of 
the bow] is in the first place drawn up, and the fish are caught in the 
inner pound by gradually raising up the net of the pound. When, 
however, they do not enter the bowl directly, the entrance into 
the pound is closed with another net and the fish are driven into 
They are 
the bowl. 
Double Tunny Pound-net. (with fishing boats and watch- 
towers). 725: 
This like the preceding one is a fixed net and is used in the seas 
near Sendai in the northern part of Japan. It consists of a leader 
anda pouch. The former is about 1750 feet long and its meshes are 
about 5 feet; the latter is about 1740 feet in circumference and its 
two blind ends form the inner pound. There are five intercepting 
nets, viz., one at the entrance of the pouch, another on each side of 
this, and others at the entrance of each inner pound. These nets 
are usally allowed to hang down ; but when the fish enter the pouch 
they are successively raised and lowered, so that the fish are 
