The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof - a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries - with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf (1883) (14777932324)

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Title: The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof : a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries : with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Faber, George Louis
Subjects: Fisheries -- Austria Fisheries -- Adriatic Sea
Publisher: London : B. Quaritch
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library



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AND THE FISH THEREOF. 117 5. Trawling-nets, Rett a strascino (strascico), Rcti raschiauti, a term which is applied not onlyto the trawl proper, as we understand it in England, but also to a variety ofseine-nets which are shot in a semicircle and both ends drawn towards someplace, either on shore or to a boat at anchor, where the net is gathered in.Among the latter may be mentioned the Tratta di fondo and Grippo, amode of fishing which is infinitely more pernicious to the fisheries in generalthan any properly-worked trawl, as it is carried on in shallow waters, andoften close in shore, thus destroying a quantity of young, and, at the time ofcatching, worthless fry. The systems adopted by the Italian fishermen (Chioggiotti), which areknown as the Cocchia and Tartana, are the only ones which at all come upto our ideas of trawling, the principal difference being that no beam is usedas in England. The Cocchia, or coccia (see Plate XIX.), is used exclusively by theChioggiotti, and drawn by