the Long Forties, both in the North Sea.

Line length

The components of a commercial fisherman's setline were measured in fathoms. The rope called a groundline, used to form the main line of a setline, was usually provided in bundles of 300 fathoms. A single 50 fathom skein of this rope was referred to as a line. Especially in Pacific coast fisheries, the setline was composed of units

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