Ancient fish traps in a Vancouver Island estuary(hakaimagazine.com)
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Ancient fish traps in a Vancouver Island estuary
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-ingenious-ancient-technology-concealed-in-the-shallows/
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Also in Australia are the Brewarrina Fish Traps, possibly one of the oldest human constructions on earth:
https://youtu.be/8cfhFwGDIqk?t=2315
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewarrina_Aboriginal_Fish_Tra...
https://youtu.be/8cfhFwGDIqk?t=2315
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewarrina_Aboriginal_Fish_Tra...
See also: the wool dogs of the coast Salish
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-dogs-that-grew-wo...
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-dogs-that-grew-wo...
I found this just as fascinating as the ancient fish traps.
The shape of traps is also similar to the pre historic desert kites of Middle East to hunt wild animals on land
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/09/the-mysterious-desert-...
I was just there for a couple of weeks visiting my partner’s family in Comox.
Her mother was telling us a bit about the work in the estuary while we were there—just a bit of the background that the article covers. At low tide you could see the piles throughout, but I didn’t spend any time there—just driven past many times so my only view of the traps was from the road and the bridge over the river.
When the tides not too low you can take canoes or kayaks up the estuary. We’d discussed it but got swept up in other things.
I can only imagine what a sight it must have been without the modern development and the wide harbour full of active fisheries. It must have been bustling at times.
Her mother was telling us a bit about the work in the estuary while we were there—just a bit of the background that the article covers. At low tide you could see the piles throughout, but I didn’t spend any time there—just driven past many times so my only view of the traps was from the road and the bridge over the river.
When the tides not too low you can take canoes or kayaks up the estuary. We’d discussed it but got swept up in other things.
I can only imagine what a sight it must have been without the modern development and the wide harbour full of active fisheries. It must have been bustling at times.
Fish weirs! They found some over 100 years ago in Boston when they were building the subway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boylston_Street_Fishweir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boylston_Street_Fishweir
Ancient native American stone eel traps still in place, the Susquehanna River near Danville, PA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcbbKJ17_No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcbbKJ17_No
> He found extensive fish-trapping systems, with hundreds of metres of excavated channels and dozens of basalt block dam walls, the volume of which he estimated at "many hundreds of tonnes".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budj_Bim_heritage_areas#Eel_tr...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/23/budj-bim...