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a powerful iron hook without barb, 8 cm long, 6 cm wide; the shaft seems to have been longer originally.

All these fishing methods in open water have now gone out of use and have been replaced by net fishing, which they have learned from the Europeans, and they buy their nets from the store.

Salt-water fish are hardly ever caught. Lyon[1] says that children now and then catch caplins in pools left by high water. At Ponds Inlet some fjord cod and sea scorpions are taken now and then.

  1. ↑ 1824 p. 340.
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