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still relies heavily on the manual skills (see Fig. 8) of the fishermen [17].
The softness of the artificial fibres has the further ideal property that un-
der tension it readily deforms into compact stable knots. After all, why should
simplicity, the result of generations of experience, be sacrificed to technological
progress?

Fig. 7. Attaching a hook to a snood

Fig. 8. Making a Net