When the great shoals of silver-skinned, swallow-tailed seerfish came swimming along with the tide, the fishermen would hang out "curtains" to catch them. These "curtains," several hundred feet long, were stretched out between two boats and weighted with iron so that they hung down to the seabed. The ribbon-like gill nets were placed in the fishes 'path, and countless fish were caught in their meshes.
當銀膚燕尾的馬鮫魚隨潮而出，漁民用「帘」取之，這帘廣袤數十尋，兩艘船兩頭張網，縋以鐵，下垂水底。