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The Gill-Net Cod Fishery
Document Type: Photo/Image
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ID Number: Goode_Gill_Net
Keywords: Fisheries, Cod
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Description:
Norwegian method of setting the nets at the bottom. 1, Nets. 2, Large stones used for moorings. 3, Buoy. 4, Buoy-line. 5, Glass floats attached to buoy-line. 6, Watch-floats.
Gill netting cod was never popular in American but other fisheries used gill nets.
This image is from G. Brown Goode's The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 1884-1887, Section V, Plate 39.
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