Norway Floats: European Glass Fishing Floats Blog

Here is an old picture (unfortunately there is no date of when it was taken available) from the fishing port in Shikotan, Russia.
As far as we know, Russians are still using and manufacturing glass fishing floats in the East of Russia, although glass floats are considered by fishermen as ‘unpractical’ and ‘fragile’, so they mostly use plastic and aluminium floats now.

Here is an old photo showing porbeagle fishing in the Norwegian sea. A handline with a big hook and a strong rope or a wire were used. Glass floats were fastened to the line. When the shark was on the hook, the floats were thrown into the sea to slow down the shark in its attempt to get away/get loose. This method was used until 1928.

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