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up for a week. When we returned and dropped anchor, he recovered four traps in a half hour and said the other two were stolen. Except for one stationary marker on Najwa shoal over half a mile distant which bares at low tide, there were no points of reference - just water everywhere and the land extremely hazy in the distance. 

In addition to fishing with pots, palm stake traps are popular in the Tarut Bay and Bahrain area. The strong stems of large date palm leaves are shred of their leaflets and the ends are stuck in the muck sand, one stem lasked closely to the next, until a whole trap is formed. The traps operate on the principle that fish swim inshore with the high tide and go out when the tide ebbs. At high tide the tops of the palm stakes are almost under water, but at low tide the stakes are readily visible. In Tarut Bay the traps are arranged in a wide "V", the open part toward the shore. At the angle of the V is a rounded trap box where the fish are recovered at low tide. To recover the fish from the trap the fisherman gets right in with the fish and wades around after them with a short, square seine with two wooden handles. 

In Bahrain the traps have a single leader perpendicular to the shore, and they are probably more effective in catching fishes swimming in schools parallel to the shore. 

Stationary floating pound nets are used to a limited extent, but the palm stakes have their advantages. Cotton twine even if it were treated would not last long in the sunny, hot, salty Persian Gulf, but palm stakes seem to have a high resistance to rot in this water. 

Shore seines, throw nets or cast nets, hook and line are also used, but since these methods are world wide they need no comment. The cast nets are most effective in turbid water whe[[strikethrough]]n[[strikethrough]]^[[re]] the fish cannot see so easily. Shore seines are not common because sand area without coral is limited or the seine would sink in the prevailing muck sand.