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Show FISH LINES OF GREAT LENGTH Many of Those Employed in Fishing for Halibut Declared to Be Sixty Miles Long. The most of the halibut are caught with the hook and line. The fishing, however, has nothing gamy or sporting sport-ing about It. The lines are dropped down into the sea in such a way that the baited hooks rest on the bed ot the ocean. The lines are of great length. Some of them are CO miles long; when loaded with fish it takes the steam engine on the vessel the better part of a day to wind thorn up. They are divided into sections, each section having a float or buoy that rests on the surface, and is marked by a flag in the daytime and at night by a light. The line lies right on the-bed the-bed of the sea. Attached to it are; hundreds of hooks and each hook is .baited. The halibut swallows the bait and is caught on the hook and held there until the line is drawn up. These-fish These-fish always feed on or close to the bed-of bed-of the ocean. Christian Herald. |