(under subclass 58) Traps specially adapted for aquatic use to catch fish.
(1) Note. Traps which, while designed to entrap fish, are equally well adapted to catch land-animals will be found classified with ordinary animal traps.
(2) Note. By "fish" is meant all animals not classifiable as insects which breathe or pass their lives in water, whether cetaceans, crustaceans, mollusks, or echinoderms, or those vertebrate animals with gills and fins more commonly called "fish". All true fishtraps, however, catch only by reason of the power of locomotion of their ultimate victims, and devices for capturing fish which depend solely upon the motion imparted to them through the water are regarded not as
traps, but as nets, and are so classified. Structures which will entrap fish when stationary in the water and also when towed through the water, if they have a trap-entrance or nonreturn entrance, are classified as fish traps.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
7+, for fishing nets.
65, and 66, for fishtraps which are well adapted to catch land-animals without undergoing modification. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
2, Apparel, appropriate subclasses for costumes for hunters and fishermen.
147, Coopering,
48, for forms on which fishtraps and eels-pots are to be made.
210, Liquid Purification or Separation,
154+, for fish-screens to keep fish out of flumes.
