Video Transcript - Weir Fishing 3

- [Narrator] To keep the seine from floating around in the water, a large rock is attached to the bottom of both ends before it's dumped overboard. - So we will run the seine from here. Up by my father, that boat up there. - Well, it if gets way up there on the way we'll drop the other end of the seine overboard and drag that end of the seine back, down, and around, the whole weir, back here. (paddle splashing) (paddle banging) See, that end of that seine isn't right tight against the weir and the herring went around the end of it and if they do, they move through. So we keep a noise and that will drive them. (paddle splashing) (paddle banging) See that seine's got a rope right around the bottom just like a... They haul on me and it puckers it right in the bottom. - This part is the top. It's got the corks on it to keep it floated up above the water. This side here is the bottom. It's got leads on it to keep everything tight on the bottom so the fish can't swim underneath of it. These here are called the purse rings. This green line goes around the bottom of the whole seine on the leads. When you get around the whole weir, the two ends meet together, and you want to haul this green line. There's an end on the other end of the seine. You want to haul it together, it hauls all the rings in the bottom, up over the side of the boat, and makes it so it's just one big circle. It's all closed off. That's where the fish are at. - [Narrator] To collect the herring, a large carrier boat will come to the weir. - So now the sardine boat is coming down the weir to get the fish. And they'll take the corks in a minute. And they'll put the corks up over the side of the boat. (fishermen chattering) (man laughs) - [Man] There it is. So you'll be waiting an hour or two to catch (indistinct). - [Narrator] To bring the fish closer together in the net, the fishermen will haul the net up onto their boat as the carrier boat pumps them out. - No one to bother 'em. - No one to bother 'em there.