Bottom Charts
(Continued from page 7)
ent on the offshore banks?
"Hydrographic conditions prov
ed to fall within those limits of
conditions from which commercial
shrimp had previously been taken.
The offshore waters, therefore,
seem habitable to commercial
shrimp at any season of the year.
"Several commercial trawlers
which served as collectors of data
during the survey reported enough
shrimp to furnish an indication
that there still may be, at some
time of the year, abundances of
shrimp offshore. In the event of
such possibility, the charting of the
bottom, done by the survey, as
sumes considerable importance in
the exploitation of the offshore
banks.
"The bottom from Cape Lookout
to Little River inlet was worked
over with a recording fathometer
and lead line. Using the lead line,
types of bottom were determined
and the limits of such bottom types
were charted with a recording
fathometer. Following the conclu
sion of the field operations, all bot
tom types were charted. All net
tows were added to this chart with
notations regarding the action of
the net during the tow and whether
or not the net was torn.
"From this master chart, it was
possible to separate the coastal
waters into areas depending upon
the bottom type. Three types of bot
tom are designated. In certain
areas, soundings showed chiefly
rocky of coral bottom. The fatho
meter showed that the bottom was
irregular or rough. Net tears were
frequent within these areas. These
are designated as dangerous areas
on the chart.
"Other areas, listed as caution
areas, have irregular bottom,
coarse or gravel sediments which
chafed the nets. Within these areas
nets were never actually lost al
though minor damages sometimes
were found. The third type of area
if .that in which the bottom is sand
or mud. in which the contours are
gentle, in which nets were never
damaged and which is considered
Safe for trawling."
Use of the bottom charts prom
ise to make shrimping more profit
able, for what has a fisherman
gained from a good haul in the
morning if his nets are torn in the
afternoon?
Operation of North Carolina state
patrol boats cost $70,887.50 in 1949
50.
This One Fools Fish;
Human Beings Bite Too
A. L. Waite wades in a locust plague o ( his own making. The
artificial grasshoppers (inset) with built-in hooks make fishing
child's play, he says.
AP N'ewsfeatures
Tulsa. Okla. ? A grasshopper lure
so lifelike that not only fish but
people, too, bite at it is being mar
keted here.
Molded in green and brown la
tex, the handmade insects are the
trickiest fraud yet pulled on our
piscatorial friends.
"It's almost shameful," says
merchandiser A. L. (Billy) WaRe,
"how fish bite at these things."
Waite knew he had something
when his friends flicked at them
while pinned in jest to his shirt
collar or lapel.
An avid angler himself, the Tul
sa n stumbled on the lures while
fishing near Windsor, Mo., where
they are made in a small plant.
He immediately snapped up ex
j elusive sales rights and is working
I out a mass production scheme to
| supply the nation.
"The secret of the thing," Waite
points out, "is the technique of
molding it with hollow insides, so
it floats. On a fly line it sits on the
water for all the world like a real
hopper'."
Wives of fishermen, too, are in
terested. "They put clasps in the
bugs and wear them for costume
jewelry," Waite said.
Paired Ships Get Fish
St. John's, Nfld. ? (AP) ? The I
"pairs" system of Spanish fishing I
vessels on the Grand Banks has
Newfoundland fishermen complain
ing. The Spaniards use a dragnet a
quarter-of-a-mile wide hauled by
two vessels. Able to stay at sea for
more than a month, the foreign
ships are taking from 80 to 100
tons of fish in this manner.
Boat Owners!
FOR LOW INSURANCE RATES AND BROAD
COVERAGE ON BOATS WITH PROTECTION
AND INDEMNITY (LIABILITY AND PROPERTY
DAMAGE)
SEE
CHALK and GIBBS
805 Ar?ndeW St.
Dial 6-3214
MOREHEAD CITY
Two Shrimp Scientists
Will Attend Miami Meeting
Carter Broad and Dr. William
Sutcliffe, shrimp specialists on the
Institute of Fisheries Research
staff, Morehead City, will attend a
shrimp symposium at Miami today
and tomorrow.
This meeting, to which shrimp
scientists have been invited, has
been called in the hopes of ironing
out difficulties encountered in the
shrimping -industry on the South
Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Invitations to scientist* have
been issued by Wayne Heydecker
of the Atlantic States llarine Fish
eries commission.
Barbour's Marine Supply Co.
Wekones
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