traps

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/75035

trap 1 n On the day of our visit he took 9,000 cod fish out of his traps.* *A shaol of fish coming in either direction in thirty to forty feet of water, the depth of the net, find their course intercepted; some of the fish pass round the seaward side of the net and escape; the others or some of them, coming landwards, enter the first compartment, swim round its side, and a portion pass into the second compartment, swim round its side, and, always pursuing a straight course, ultimately enter the third compartment, and finally the pound or fouth compartment. The fish, when swimming round the sides of the net, are observed to pass by the narrow doors, keeping always 'straight ahead;' so that, if the doors are alwasy _flush_ with the sides of the net, the fish swim straight on and do not turn out of their course to pass through them, and con- sequently remain in the pound when once there. It is needless to say that the net is _floored_ with net, and really formes a gigantic bag with square sides and narrow perpendicular inlets. When the fish (over) [reverse] are taken out, the pound or any single compartment of the net is raised by men in boats, who haul up the net with rope attached to the floats. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M. Story JUN 1970 JH JUN 1970 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I ~berth, boat, fisherman, skiff, cod trap, buoy, cod (fish), fish, crew, fishery, fishing, gear, glut, keg, cag, lead, leader, linnet, loft, twine loft, man, master, mooring, trap-net, season, skipper, system, time, vee, voyage Reverse at T_15016