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Long practised off Chesil Beach, involving
a fairly large net, it is labour intensive - used to involve
whole families - requiring a minimum of 8 people and one boat,
generally rowed from the shore around fish and back to the
shore, whereupon it was hauled towards the beach by hand.
Boats generally used in this exercise were called lerrets
and are only found in the Chesil Bank area.
Fish targeted include mackerel, whiting,
herring and sprat.
This form of fishing is particularly effective
when shoals of fish move along Chesil Beach. Easter time was
generally when the mackerel seining started. This ran through
the summer till late September/early October. Crew then moved
to sprats from October through to Christmas and whiting was
caught from November through the winter. Then they all went
on holiday in March!
All methods of netting remain a popular form
of commercial fishing.
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