(under subclass 7) Encircling fish-nets held upright in the water by floats and sinkers and designed to be hauled to the shore, a boat, or some other landing-place by the ends or closed around a body of swimming fish.
(1) Note. Includes purse-seines, which have bottoms closable like a bag-mouth by heaving overboard a weight attached to a rope, called the "purse-line", rove through rings attached to the foot rope of the net which purses or closes the bottom of the net and confines the shoal of fish around which the net has been cast.
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104, for towable fish traps.
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254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling Force,
264+, for cable-pulling devices which are in some instances disclosed as pulling in nets or purse lines, but have no special structure adapting them to handle the nets or controls adapting them to manipulate the nets or lines for fishing purposes.
