FISHERIES 89 generally has two or more companies or clubs of twenty or thirty men ; each company owning various boats and generally two of the gigantic seines employed, which cost ^250 or more. These nets are about 250 fathoms or more long and about 15 fathoms deep, and three boats go to each seine. The first boat, which is also the largest, is called the seine-boat, as it carries the net and seven men Pilchard Boats, Mevagissey in it; the next is termed the "vollier," or "cock-boat," and carries another seine, called the tuck-seine, which is 100 fathoms long and 18 deep, this boat also carries seven men; the third boat is called the "lurker," and contains three or four men, and in this boat is the master. The pilchards were at one time supposed to come from the Polar Sea, but it has now been ascertained that
