Net Float
Battle Harbour National Historic Site
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| Nom de l'objet : | Net Float |
| Type de l'objet : | Float |
| Classification de l'objet : | Man-made Artefact |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | Tools & Equipment for Materials |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | Fishing & Trapping Tools & Equipment |
| Discipline : | Industrial History Material Culture |
| Matériaux : | Glass Hemp |
| Technique de fabrication : | Blown Woven |
| Numéro d'accession : | 761 |
| Pays d'origine : | Portugal Spain |
| Continent d'origine : | Europe |
| Province d'utilisation : | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Pays d'utilisation : | Canada |
| Culture : | Canadian Portuguese Spanish |
| Secteur géo-culturel : | North America Europe |
| Contexte culturel : | Fishing Equipment |
| Date de début de production : | 1950 |
| Date de fin de production : | 1970 |
| Période : | Mid 20th Century |
| Description : | This artefact is a net float used in the fishery. The float is spherical in shape and made from thick blown green glass. It is hallow in the center, the trapped air thus providing the buoyancy needed to keep the net afloat. The globe shaped float has been stitched into a mesh hemp casing. The casing has been woven with hemp rope to construct a covering comprised of eight panels that tightly sheath the entire float. The float attaches to the main net via the hemp cover. |
| Commentaires : | Fishing at Battle Harbour, like elsewhere in Labrador and Newfoundland, underwent a number of technological changes throughout the centuries and decades. Such changes developed in both the inshore and offshore fisheries and greatly affected the practice of catching fish. Practises ranged from hand lining, seine net, cod trap, up to the implementation of the trawl net. As cod are bottom dwelling fish, they will only follow capelin close to the shore line where the bank is deep and the water remains cool. The seine was rectangular net that had floats attached to the top or 'headline' and weights attached to the bottom or 'foot line.' There were guide lines attached to the end of the net that would be pulled by men on shore, thus pulling the net together in a purse like fashion and trapping the cod which could then be pulled ashore. The cod trap developed from the seine and was composed of a mesh box like structure with floats at the top and weights at the bottom. The trap used a leader net that guided the cod into the trap where they were confined by a series of angled walls. Both the cod seine and cod trap were used in Labrador in general and Battle Harbour specifically, where the appropriate geological and climate conditions existed. The trawl net was developed for off shore fishing and was employed by the Portuguese who were fishing off Battle Harbour around 1950. Though the glass float in question was for use on Portuguese trawl nets it was not uncommon to find such an item in the kit of the local Battle Harbour fishermen who often found them washed up on shore and attached them to their seines and traps. |
| Fonctions : | This net float was originally for use on Spanish or Portuguese trawl nets, though it was common for local fishermen to use them on seine nets as well. A number of such floats were needed to keep a net afloat. |
| Hauteur : | 17 |
| Longueur : | 17 |
| Largeur : | 17 |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Nombre d'objets : | 1 |
| Nombre de parties composantes : | 2 |
| Nom des parties composantes : | Glass Globe Hemp Case |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Battle Harbour |
| Province de l'établissement : | Newfoundland and Labrador |
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