Sujet
Our Fishing Industries: Whitebait Fishing, 1883. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Our Fishing Industries: Whitebait Fishing, 1883. 'Bow of white-bait boat, showing cabin. 2. Stern of boat: man shaking whitebait out of net. 3. Whitebait-net, rigged up ready for use. 4. Whitebait-boat, showing the method of fishing...the chief scene of its visitations is undoubtedly the Thames, notwithstanding the unwholesome and noxious particles with which the river below London unhappily abounds...The net as shown in Sketch No. 3, is a sort of bag...about eighteen or twenty feet in length...The boats...contain a little cramped-up cabin...Anchoring the boat in the tideway, where the fish are known to abound, the men throw overboard the anchor attached to the rope fastened to the net, which is cast overboard...with its mouth against the tide. It is kept in...position by a rope attached to the centre stake and passed through a block tied to the mast of the boat. By this arrangement (Sketch 4) the tail of the net just comes even with the stern of the boat, so that when sufficient bait has been captured the tail can be lifted over the side of the boat without the fishermen having to haul up the rest of the net; and, the string being untied (Sketch 2), they can be gently shaken (they should not be handled) into the basket prepared for them'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A43_229
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Droits gérés
Format disponible
45,7Mo (4,4Mo) / 40,8cm x 28,1cm / 4815 x 3316 (300dpi)