Show FISH LINES OF GREAT LENGTH many of those thoe employed in fishing for halibut declared to be sixty miles long the most of tho halibut are caught with the hook book and line the fishing however has nothing gamy or sporting about it the lines are dropped down into tho the sea in such euch a way that the baited hooks rest on tho the bed ot of the ocean the lines are 0 of great length some bamo of thorn them are 60 miles long when loaded with fish it takes the steam engine on the vessel thes the better part of a day to wind them up they are divided into sections each section having a float or buoy that rests on tho the surface and Is a marked by a flag in tho daytime and at night by a light tho the line lies right on tho tha bed of the sea attached to it are hundreds of hooks and each hook la is baited the halibut swallows the tha bait and Is caught on the hook and held there until the line Is drawn up cheso fish always feed on or close to tho the bed of the ocean christian herald |