The “prairie ice jigger”
The term “prairie ice jigger” is a local name given by fishermen of western Canada to a simple but ingenious apparatus used to facilitate setting gill nets beneath an ice surface. A jigger consists of a board and two levers so arranged that a backward pull on a line attached to one lever is translat...
Published in: | Polar Record |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1957
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400049640 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400049640 |