Fish trap
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A fish trap is a trap used for catching fish and other aquatic animals of value. Fish traps include fishing weirs, cage traps, fish wheels and some fishing net rigs such as fyke nets.
Traditional fish traps, Hà Tây, Vietnam
Cage trap at Lembeh Strait, Indonesia
Eel traps in England, 1899, by Myles Birket Foster
Fish trap, Roman period; found in Valkenburg, the Netherlands
Fishing weir
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A fishing weir, fish weir, fishgarth or kiddle is an obstruction placed in tidal waters, or wholly or partially across a river, to direct the passage of, or trap, fish. A weir may be used to trap mari
Fish trap
…A fish trap is a trap used for catching fish and other aquatic animals of value. Fish traps include fishing weirs, cage traps, fish wheels and some fishing net rigs such as fyke nets. The use of traps is culturally almost universal around the world and seems to…
A tidal fish corral in Manila Bay, Philippines (c. 1940s)
Salmon weir at Quamichan Village on the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island, c. 1866
Algonquin fishing with weir and spears in a dugout canoe. After a drawing by colonist John White (1585).
The Double-Heart of Stacked Stones fishing weir in Penghu, Taiwan