PORTO ERCOLE

“Others prefer to array nets and of these there are those called casting nets, and those called draw nets, drag nets and round bag nets and seines. Others they call cover-nets, and, with the seines, there are those called ground nets and ball nets and the crooked trawl. Innumerable are the various sorts of such crafty bosomed nets. Others again have their minds set rather upon weels which bring joy to their masters while they sleep at ease, and great gain attends on little toil. Others with the long pronged trident wound the fish from land or from a ship as they will. The due measure and right ordering of all these they know certainly who contrive these things.“  Oppian (2nd century AD)