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Fish in the Dark ($993,940 for seven previews) logged a stellar sum for a seven-show week in one of Broadways smaller houses, the 1,073-seat Cort Theater

But in reality would be completely impractical to use, as a fishing net mesh also needs to allow enough water to pass through it in order that you can move it around in the water and also lift it once the fish is over it, not to mention it would be so heavy once wet, that it would cause that end of the net to sink

Operated by a team of six fishermen, the height of the Chinese fishing nets is around 10 meters, each sprawling to 20 meters over the water body