The Philippine journal of science. [Vol. 67, no. 1]

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The Philippine Journal of Science

1938

The one-man type is a small gill net, 4 meters deep and 14
meters long. This net is home-made, woven from No. 40 thread
with a 3.4 cm (stretched) mesh. This net is provided with
floats, 4 cm in diameter, 14 cm long, and 30 centimeters apart.
Stone weights set 45 centimeters apart are used on the lead
line. The net is dyed light blue.
The other type of panirikinia is a large net, composed of 10
pieces of the same material and made like the one-man panirikinia. The pieces, measuring 7 meters each, are interlaced end
to end.
The operation of this net requires seven to twelve barotos.2
One of these barotos, called pukutan, is large, and manned by
two men. The net is carried in this baroto. The other barotos
are small and manned each by a single individual. One of
these serves as the lawitan, the boat in which one end of the
net is accommodated. In actual fishing the man on the lawitan takes charge of one end of the net. The rest of the men are
called abugan, or drivers. There must be at least five abugan.
Fishing is done at daytime, always in the morning. The fishermen start for the fishing ground at dawn. At the fishing
ground the net is spread across the current, which must not
be very strong. One end of the net is dropped from the pukutan and picked up by one man on the lawitan, who ties it to
the baroto. Then both the pukutan and the lawitan are steered
in opposite directions until the entire length of the net is spread
out. The abugan deployed in the form of a semicircle by this
time are about a mile or more away from the net, moving toward the net and driving the flying fish toward it by throwing
stones forward to scare the fish.
Pamarongoy.-The pamarongoy 3 is a purse seine. This seine
varies in length from 230 to 300 meters and is 16 meters or
more deep at the bunt. It is provided with a 7-mesh selvage
of No. 40 4 netting all around.
The net is composed of two parts, the wings, or palispis, and
the bunt, or siguin. The length of the wing portion varies from
70 to 80 meters. The netting used in the wings is handwoven
from No. 20 thread with a mesh of 2.5 centimeters. The bunt
is composed of five parts. The middle portion is of No. 4 net2A narrow canoelike boat with a high sharp cutwater, provided with
outriggers, and invariably fitted with a sail.
8 Net for catching barofngoy.
4 The numbers of the twines and netting mentioned here are taken from
the Aguinaldo Catalogue.