The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-11
SARDiNE FISHING.
A Wary Fish to Catch and CompfcatS4
System Of SEEMING.

a Wary Fish to Catch and q Comp2icatsa
System Of SEEMING.
Sardine fishing begins in May or
June and sometimes lasts as late -
November. Boats come from Douar.
nenez to take advantage of the early
run, and, as the season wanes, return.
At times there are as many as /, 200
boats engaged here in the pursuit
These boats are about thirty feet long.
entirely open except a short deck at
the stern, and cary two masts that can
be readily taken down. The sails have
no booms, and whenever a tack is
made they have to be run down and
put up on the opposite side of the
mast-the windward side.
When at work the rigging is some
times completely cleared away so that
the boat has no appearance of being
adapted to sails. 1t is then pulled
along by huge sweeps. The fish arc
not caught by inclosing them as when
a seine Is used. but the net, which 10
of small mesh end made of linen tread.
oftn died blue to render it less appa-
rent in the water, for the sardine is
wary, is made to trail straight behind
the boat. That is the net, about TWEEN
ty feet long edge and buoyed with
cork floats on the other, so that
when il is in the water it assumes
an upright position like a wall,
and it is towed in this position
through the water, by one end, a.
the boat is moved slowly along. Tho
patron mounts the little deck at tho
stern with bucket of bait called roug,
the eggs of Goldfish. under one arm,
and his keen, practiced eye ranging
the wave. He scatters little of tho
roug on one side of the net when no
discovers the proximity of the fish, and
they rise in shoal to take it.
This is the critical moment He
throws quantity on the opposite side,
and the fish, making a dash for it, are
entangled in the meshes. When the
sardines are numerous the boat does
not halt to take the net on board, but
by giving it certain pull the meshes
are frightened, and with buoy to mark
it, it is cast off and left till full catch
Is made. So many fish have been
known to entangle themselves that
their weight carried the net down and
it was never recovered. Another net
is Immediately put out, and the opera
ton is repeated till the nets are all
used. Then comes the picking up and
the extraction Of the fish, the latter
work being performed with great care,
because handling the fish Injuries them.
The net is caught up at the ends and
see-sawed till the fish drops into the
bottom of the boat, where they remain
till the arrival in port-BaIletin liner.
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