{"id":5272,"date":"2021-07-30T16:46:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2021-08-10T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:18:35","slug":"pound-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5272","title":{"rendered":"Pound Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pound net is a fish trap that corrals fish into a pen where they are kept alive. They swim in the enclosure until they can be bailed out.\u00a0In 1977 some commercial fishing friends of mine were setting up a pound net.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eddie O\u2019Neal, Ed Corley and Asa Gray were partners in this venture. They worked under the name\u00a0Easy Money Fish Company<\/em>, and constructed their net in an area of the Pamlico Sound, known as Scott\u2019s Reef.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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On a calm day, I rode out with Ed to check it out. They weren\u2019t catching much at the time, but I photographed the basic layout shooting Panatomic-X, a fine grained black and white film.<\/p>\n

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The fish follow a portion of the net called a lead, which channels them into a pound where they cannot escape.<\/p>\n

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They’re penned in until the fishermen come to get them. Any unwanted or protected species are then released alive into open waters. Despite the labor intensive work to set up, a pound net is an efficient way to catch fish.<\/p>\n

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Thirty-five years later I photographed another net near Ocracoke Island. With commercial fishing getting to be a more difficult livelihood, there doesn’t seem to be as many as there used to be.<\/p>\n

Years ago, Eddie O’Neal (1982) and Ed Corley (1985) died in separate weather-related commercial fishing incidents. Asa Gray passed away in 2018 after many decades as a waterman. How those guys loved to fish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pound net is a fish trap that corrals fish into a pen where they are kept alive. They swim in the enclosure until they can be bailed out.\u00a0In 1977 some commercial fishing friends of mine were setting up a pound net.\u00a0 Eddie O\u2019Neal, Ed Corley and Asa Gray were partners in this venture. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,8,36,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-white-photography","category-commercial-fishing","category-history","category-outer-banks","category-pamlico-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5300,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}