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
Animal trapping, or simply trapping or ginning, is the use of a device to remotely catch an animal. Animals may be trapped for a variety of purposes, including food, the fur trade, hunting, pest control, and wildlife management.
Trap nets used to trap birds (tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis); 14th century.
Sketches of life in the Hudson's Bay Company territory, 1880
Size comparison between two common types of spring traps: rat trap (above), and the smaller mouse trap (below).
Trapped raccoon