Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries: For the Fiscal Year 1912 and Special Papers

Among recent noteworthy changes in methods or apparatus that may have a far-reaching effect are the increasing use of gill nets in the shore fisheries of New England, the augmenting of the ¿eet of trawl-net vessels operating out of Boston, and the Wholesale capture of salmon by means of purse seines on the grounds off Cape Flattery.

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