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Notes on the Fishing Industry of Plymouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2009

Walter Heape
Affiliation:
Resident Superintendent of the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association.

Extract

In the following Notes on the Fishing Industry of Plymouth the information obtained is divided into three sections, which are again subdivided as follows:

I.—Methods of fishing, localities fished, and fish caught. There are eleven different methods of fishing carried on in Plymouth:

1. Beam trawling. 2. Drift-net fishing. 3. Moored-net fishing. 4. Seine fishing. 5. Bultering, or long-line fishing. 6. Hand-line fishing. 7. Eel spearing. 8. Mullet trapping. 9. Crab and lobster fishing. 10. Shrimp and prawn fishing. 11. Oyster, mussel, and cockle fishing.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1887

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