FISHING BY THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7913, 30 November 1887, Page 4

FISHING BY THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

:•' (Electrical Review:) ?? 0 -'t^CSpifteJnteresting experiments in connccJfe^rtionj \ritli . the. eubjeet of fishing, the. i^ivScotimaii states; have been carried on in ?'4^*Ko" Firth of Forth, under the. patent sysSlKtem 'of Captain Coppin. It has long been R^'^- Understood .that fish are strongly attracted any bright light—a fact utilised S,* J §itey/thy salmon night-fisher, who uses a Srftfflamiiig pine-torch', to bring the prey C^S.'WitJiin reach of -his." leister " or spear; :--"¥i?jSia~it'-i4 -proposed under this system to Sgßs&nipJdy-by way of lure the powerful light |£.%:df the electric lamp. A number of genhaving obtained the use of the #.^»Bteamship Tweeddale, kindly granted by jS^feMr Scott, of the General Steam Fishing ic'ii- Company, Granton, have had her comfitted out for the purpose with v©rf electric apparatus, engine, and dynamo, ■cZf£~exe, lamps of 6000 candle-power, incanfilplesfeenli submarine lamps, &c. The work ■j^trhas .been done under the superintendence s;;! -'"'<i'of;Mr Greville. E. Johnston, on behalf of .'■ft^fMesfsrji. T. H. Perry and Co., electrical vVHwgin'ee^, Liverpool. Recently the vessel, /j^Tthus equipped, was engaged in her novel fi\'7* fishing- cruise lin the neighborhood of the vj : 'K Js\i of May. The experiments, however, ;«■■;;! hay.et not,' so far, been successful. The V.j- electric. lamps were sunk with the beam "y>'icf the net tp a depth of 40 or 50 fathoms, ;-,;-*!''thi glass globe being about jjin thick. ,< ;•?; .'; Operations were carried 'on for about an f v.5-- hour on two occasions, and it was found i>";lVttiat the pressure of the water was too '; £;i great' for the "strength; of the glass, the .';-T-y result being that the lamps broke, and the . ; rlixht instantly went out. It is intended : V -': ' to renew the experiments, using stronger L :: \. glass. - -•"• - •