90 square yards and the fore lug about 50 square yards.  The other sails for heavier weather are naturally smaller.  The largest masts for fine weather are respectively 36 feet and 22 feet, long.  The average cost of one of these boats and gear is about L122, made up as follows:  Hull, L32; sails, gear, and oars, L30; nets and gear attached, L60.  The season for anchovy fishing commences on the 1st of March and ends 30th of June; it begins again on the 15th of September, and continues until the end of the year.  Most fish are taken at a distance of about 9 miles from the land, although they often come in much closer.  Anchovies are sold fresh, or are salted to be sent away, some are used for bait, and in times of great plenty quantities are put on the land for manure.  The greater part are, however, preserved in barrels or tins, and are exported to France or England.

The net used in the capture of anchovies is called traina or copo.  It is in principle like the celebrated purse seine of the United States, but in place of being 200 fathoms long, as are many of the nets, which, in American waters, will inclose a whole school of mackerel, it is but 32 to 40 fathoms long.  The depth is 7 to 10 fathoms, and the mesh 3/4 inch.  Sardine fishing commences on the 1st of July and lasts until December.  The principal ground is 2 to 10 miles off shore.  The price of sardines on the coast is about 21/2d. per pound.  When the sardines appear in shoals they are taken with the traina in the same way as anchovies, a net of 1/2-inch mesh being used.  Sardines are also taken by gill nets about 200 feet long and 18 feet wide.  When used in the daytime the fish are tolled up by a bait consisting of the liver of cod.  When the sardines have been attracted to the neighborhood of the net, bait is thrown on the other side of it.  The fish in their rush for the bait become entangled in the mesh.  These nets are sometimes anchored out all night, in which case no bait is used.

A third class of boats of much the same character are of about the following dimensions:  Length, 28 feet to 35 feet; beam, 7 feet 6 inches to 8 feet; depth, 2 feet 6 inches to 2 feet 8 inches.  The two lugs will contain 16 and 30 square yards of canvas respectively.  They are used for sardine catching, when they will carry a crew of four men, or for taking conger and cod, in which case they will be manned by eight hands.

Their cost will average approximately as follows:  Hull, L15; gear and sail, L10; nets and lines, L13; about L40.  The conger season extends from March to June, and from October to November.  The fish are taken by hook and line; sardine and fish known as berdel (which in turn is taken by a hook covered with a feather) are used as bait.