The method used at Yarmouth for fishing is "Net fishing."

Trawling is the oldest net fishing method and is often used by dragging a "bag-net" over the bottom of the sea to catch the bottom living fish. The bag-net is now towed by a single vessel, but the Egyptians used to use two boats. British fishermen have long trawled this way, using first the "beam-trawl", and now the "otter-trawl". With either of these a special device keeps the mouth of the net open, so that two towing boats are unnecessary. large steam trawlers are used in the sea around the British Isles.

Drift nets are the nets mainly used for catching surface swimming fish, by entangling them in their meshes.

The drift net is so called because the boats are not anchored but drift with the tide and wind. Each boat carries a number of nets attached to a long headlong and this is shot from the boat as it moves slowly forward. When all the nets are overboard the drifter lies too, with a small sail at the stern so that it can lie head to the wind, keeping the headline of its nets stretched as it drifts slowly backwards, dragging the fleet of nets after it. Drift nets are usually set at sunset, and the fishermen wait through the night until daybreak to haul in the nets and disentangle the fish caught in the meshes. The nets are lightly and strongly made of cotton, and they mostly measure from 50-60 yards long and about 14 yards deep.