| 1. Fish location by natural means |
| 1.1. Listening |
| a’ cluiche | listening for a herring or other fish’s breaking the surface, a much less distinct sound. |
| 1.2. Losgadh / the burning |
| sgiolltar (Bays) (jelly fish) | phosphorescence in the sea. |
| sgiolltair | the first sparks of ‘burning’ in early evening. |
| sgadan a losgadh | individual herring seen in the ‘burning’; a thin shoal seen in the burning; a large shoal seen in the burning. |
| 1.3. Herring-feeding |
| 1.4. The gannet / emhsan |
| a’ bualadh | the high vertical plummet of gannet working on herring. |
| bualadh air “sheef” | the skimming dive of a gannet, perhaps on mackerel or fry on the surface. |
| 1.5. Miscellaneous |
| “smelt” | fiadh air a mhuir a deidh do sgadan a bhi ann. |
| 2. The ring-net |
| 2.1. Its construction |
| 2.2. Setting up and mending a ring-net |
| 2.3. The buoy |
| bollachan | |
| “wager” | the plug of buoy, short for watcher. |
| spring | the string by which buoy is attached to back-rope. |
| 3. Fishing |
| a’ cur ’s a tarruing | the shooting [and towing of the net]. |
| brailer | [?] hauling net. |
| brèilear | hauling net. |
| [note] | [NOTES: it is not clear if the last two words are variants. The second seems to be a later addition (different ink) and may be a clarification of the first, which is illegible.] |
