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No. 211. Herring Pound-net. 4, (leader shortened). 
This is a fixed net used in Hokkaido, The pound is rectangular 
in shape and its nettings are made of hemp. The longer side of 
the pound is about 170 feet long, and its meshes are about three 
inches in the front part, while in the greater portion of the back 
part they are about one inch. On both sides of the entrance of the 
pound are the wings made of straw rope with the meshes about 
three inches. The leader is perfectly straight, and is 500-1500 feet 
long. It is also made of straw rope, and the meshes are about five 
inches. 
The most striking feature of this net is the so-called bag-net boat 
(Jap. waku-ami-buné), that is, a boat with a flat bag-shaped net 
suspended under it from the sides. It is placed at the closed end 
of the pound, and the bag-net is joined to the pound by one of its 
sides. When a shoal of herring enters the pound, a boat at its 
entrance takes up the rope and draws up the net, and on its 
approaching the end of the pound, the fishermen in the bag-net boat 
allow the joining line of the bag-net and the pound to sink some- 
what below the surface of the sea, and the fish are passed on into 
the former. The joining line is then again raised, and when, after 
repeating this process a number of times, the bag-net is filled, the 
boat leaves its post to be taken by another, and rows for the coast 
where the fish are bailed. 
No. 212. Sample of Netting for Herring. 
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No. 218. Herring Gill-net. 4. One Netting. 
A single netting is about 20 feet by 7 feet, and the meshes are 
about two inches. <A single boat of two or three men uses usually 
25-50 nettings, and five nettings are joined into a single group. 
Between each netting a weight of 4-5 lbs. is attached, and to each 
group a float and a weight are tied. A number of these groups 
are set in a single line parallel to the coast. 
