Pallas, called the beljuga, or bjeluga sturgeon, a
species of trap or weir is constructed. Another
method is to ascertain where the fish are lying side
by side in a state of torpidity, in deep holes. Make
apertures in the ice, and with long poles, having a
large sharp hook at the end, disturb them, and as
they rise, the fish are hooked, and drawn up on the
ice ; if too heavy for one fisherman, others assist.
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A third method is by netting. Upon one occasion:
(as described in Trusler's Habitable World, vol. ii.
p. 189), five hundred of these fish were taken; the
generality of which were thirteen, fourteen, to
twenty-three hundred weight each.
