View of a group of men and women gathered around a scale model of a fish trap. The sign in front reads: "This is a fish trap, Alaska's Enemy No. 1, vote oct. 12th, to abolish it". Based on other photographs in the series this photograph was most likely taken in Anchorage, Alaska. Based on other photographs in the series this photograph was most likely taken in 1948. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".

Love or hate them? #Fishweirs have always been a contentious issue of mass capture fishing such as access to Salmon stocks in the 1940s Alaska.
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Aerial satellite imagery of the wooden fish traps from the coast of Kosi Bay, Zululand, South Africa. Source Google maps.

Images of the stone #fishweirs in the Penghu County, Taiwan (sources the amazing Penghu Shihu Information Platform, https://stoneweir.info/ site). This area with 587 stone fish weirs, the highest concentration in the world. The large numbers being attributed to availability of fish, stones, tidal range & wave action used by local communities. #UNOceanDecade #unitethesea #DecadeHeritage @CulturalTaiwan

Stone fish trap on Lasqueti Island, British Columbia - Photo by Raymond Lipovsky

Today we celebrate International Day of the World's #IndigenousPeoples. Indigenous Peoples comprise 6% of the global population, yet they protect 80% of its biodiversity and heritage. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Drawing of people fishing from boats and Seine fishing at Olinda a historic city in #Pernambuco, #Brazil, in 1682. From Dutch sources. #fishing #maritime #heritage #Stonefishweirs #DecadeHeritage #oceanspast #costalhistory

Green turtle ( Chelonia mydas )

Crevalle jack, Caranx hippos Carangidae are a family of ray-finned fish which includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, and scads

The weirs are family-owned and still running today as part of the fishing landscape. Hook and line, fishweirs and traps were used to fish on shore and in deeper water. With live catch being kept in pens in shelters bays. #OceansPast #UNOceanDecade #unitethesea #DecadeHeritage
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Ancient net fishermen (Source: Ehud Galili, Baruch Rosen—Journal of Nautical Archaeology)

Fishing in the northern ocean in the late Middle Ages (detail) Reproduction of a woodcut from Historia de Gentibus septentrionalibus by Olaus Magnus, published in Rome in 1555 (The Stewart Museum at the Fort, Île Sainte-Hélène, Montreal)

legendary Molly Malone, famous for the song “Molly Malone” which has become the unofficial song of Ireland, supposedly was a fishmonger in the 17th century who sold fish in the daytime and was a prostitute at night. She had a statue on Grafton Street in Dublin commemorating the new millennium, but her statue is now on Suffolk Street

Fishing ( longlining) canoes at Elmina(around 1746). Elmina is a fishing port on the south coast of Ghana, in West Africa. from Cf. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, inv. nr. 3032 B 10, opp. p. 588

Stone #fishweir is part of a wider range of fishing methods (netting, longlining, spearing) that we can date back to prehistory. A range of socioeconomic roles for groups such as chandlers, boat makers, fishermen/mongers interlinking sea and people .#unitethesea #DecadeHeritage #UNOceanDecade 1/2