Home fishing and home waters. A practical treatise on fish culture .. by Green Seth 1817-1888

Home fishing and home waters. A practical treatise on fish culture .. by Green Seth 1817-1888

Author:Green, Seth, 1817-1888
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fish-culture
Publisher: New York, O. Judd co.
Published: 1888-03-25T05:00:00+00:00


pickerel and perch among the weeds; the bull-head in holes excavated by them in the mud, etc. These localities are well known to poachers, and where the fish congregate in these places in large schools, they draw nets around them and frequently capture the whole lot at a single haul. Where the bottom is such that it is impracticable to draw a seine by reason of its being covered with boulders or rocky reefs, the "gill net" is used.

This net is made of very fine thread, and the meshes of the net are made in proportion to the size of the fish intended to be captured, and as the name of the net implies, the fish, while swimming through the water, thrust their heads into the meshes of the net, which catch them under their gills and hold them securely. If, by any chance, the fish should succeed in freeing itself from the net, it does not stand one chance in a hundred of recovering; the reason of which is that the gills are, comparatively speaking, the fish's lungs. When the fish feels himself caught, he instinctively struggles violently to escape, thereby lacerating his breathing apparatus to a great extent. We all know the usual result of injury to our own lungs, and it will, therefore, be easy to comprehend the effect upon fish.

Another method by which our inland waters are deprived of hundreds of thousands of young fish annually, is through the means of the murderous spear and jack-light. The depredators approach at night the spawning beds of the salmon trout, bass or other fish; the strong light of the jack, as it is called, thrown upon the water, enables the spearman to see down in the clear water for several feet;



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