Show LATEST NETS A FRENCH INVENTOR introduces NEW METHODS OF SEINING Electr lt ty to be lu aloyed in gathering the of tl e sea how ni may lo 10 Cp in large quant jalc and before tl ey know it it bis frequently been a subject of comment bat tho methods in vogue for gathering abo harvest of tho sea have scarcely changed from century to century tho boue or ivory or wooden fishhooks of the eskimo or the roath aca islanders arc represented it is true in our higher civilization by alo finely poll ed metal but this is a reano anent of manufacture not an improve meat in method it is equally truo that then rudely twisted t ark i acts arc only to bo compared with the product of 0 ir rope walks and twine factories greatly to tl e a 1 ai tago of the latter this in doctry as old as ha manity has EO 0 o siy ma lo 10 but a bingea step sines its birth they are bessei bially tl e sime coarse nota and 1 e sunn 1 boks that haio always teen employed 1 for 11 e fish ing industry that are in use today it is frequently said tha acea ought to nourish the land and in view of the rich supplies of food which alie een contains this seems to be just on the other hand the complaints of her men prove thit th it their calling is far from we hea frequently 0 re alons glons whore fish were formerly abundant w 1 ich at present are hardly pro lacing ai watt is tl e cause of tins of things there kiy la truth bo many causes but it is largely duo to tho crudeness cru denees of tho methods employed 1 ish show a strong tendency for quit ting the place where bets have been era aloyed which frighten hem or to avoid returning it they are of migrate ry habits on the other alanl tho nets and drags often up the bottom and dis tho ning beds with the agg and tl 0 young these con side rations hive led a gentleman lamod to conc civo a new system of fish ing employ ng borne of tho methods of modern science and overcoming as ha thinks borne of the objections to tho antiquated methods iio claims to lave accomplished 1 among other results the attracting of the fish in 0 his toils and them without frightening them and wit out much v ear ai d tear on the nets themselves in his i eta for instance of a cylindrical shape the ting forming the bottom has lead sinkers fixed to it in tho way while the upper edgo consists of a rubber tube which is in communication by meins of a long flozie 0 pipe with a reservoir in the boat and which is supplied with compressed air by meana of one or more pumps custea 1 of being placed in the boat this re senoir can in somo cases bo arranged ou shore or fiven on a buoy when thrown in tho water in the way tho rubber tube 1 avina lccy emptied of air the w eight of the net will of course take it to the bottom where a station iry mass of acla anely small volume which will not of itself terrify the fish having proceeded to the fish to tl 0 location by methods which wo will allude to further on as elou as there is reason to believe that they have gathered in force a stop cock is opened allowing tl e con pressed ir from the flow into and tl 0 tubular ring constituting the upper border of alie net this ring as a result augments in volume and forms a rigid mouth for the net and at a given moment in accordance w ith the law of it buoyant an thOL carry ing the not it tho important point is tb t this is accomplished without loiso and with out agitating tl 0 water I 1 ho fish is not alarmed and la captured before he knows it without making any attempt to escape the principle may bo applied to bogue riots or purse nets it is well known and recognized that fish in common w ith most animals excluding humans are strongly attracted by anything which glitters mr taken a ivan of this an 1 has constructed lumi buoys containing batteries or ao connecting with includes inc audes cent lamps A flattened reflector spreads the light over a wide extent these buoys are placed with er bait in tl 0 bets and the fish aio attract cl from all sides like moths to a caudle and be conio prey the next thing is to ehnow to draw in the bet to employ w anther i primitivo tivo and mr 1 aa devised a much better system at auy rate in theory his idea is to make a sort of scale coi listii of a beam enot ed to a stake this beam has at 01 e end a square net and at the other a tray m which is placed n weight slightly arc it a thin that of the re net an a prop mechanism clockwork work or oth berwise raises up this tray at say every five or ten minutes chith gives to the beam an movement every time the beam rices beyond the horizon tal dec contact is mode connects g lit distance on the bank or in the bort wherever the fisherman ia static cd whenever there aio no fish in tl is square uit it rises quickly by the excessive weight at the other end of tie bo and a short shows that the beam has gone by the horizontal pos lion without stop ping there and consequently there are no fish if on the contrary the square net fish the of weight will no longer be able to carry it up 1 e the horizontal and the bell w ill ring |