Detail of a marginal miniature of a leaping #salmon in a river in #Munster (Ireland). From Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae (Topographia Hibernica) dating to 1196-1223. Held in British Library. #Coastalhistory #4oceans #tcdtceh

Hinchinbrook Island Scraggy Point tidal stone fish traps For more information on #fishweirs of #Queensland See Rowland, Michael J., and Sean Ulm. "Indigenous fish traps and weirs of Queensland." Queensland Archaeological Research 14 (2011): 1-58.

Stone fishweirs at #Hinchinbrook Island, home of #Biyaygiri #indigenouspeople, #Queensland, #Australia. Hinchinbrook Island has 5 stone traps the largest being the Scraggy Point with an area of 20,000m2 enclosed. Home to a huge area of mangroves and tidal flats. #Coastalhistory #4oceans #tcdtceh

Satellite imagery of shoreline on Murray island, collection of five large stone fish traps, source Google Map

The Mer/Murry Island, Torres Strait Island Region, Queensland, Australia, home to the indigenous Melanesian Meriam people. The island's shores feature a vast complex of stone fish weirs constructed from coral rock. 1/6 #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh #4oceans

Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs - The Cultural Heritage Framework Programme

Follow links Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs.
#oceanaction46159 #IndigenousPeoples #unoceandecade #oceandecadeheritage #archaeology #tcdtceh #4oceans
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Stone fish traps Rota Cadiz Spain.

Stone fish weirs at #Rota #Andalusia #Spain Aerial imagery from Google Maps. picture copyright Dr P. Montgomery.

Aerial imagery of the 8 stone #fishweirs "corrales" (fish pens), located in #Rota a municipality of the province of #Cádiz, #Andalusia #Spain. Constructed on the wide sandy shore along the Atlantic coast of Spain. 1/8 #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh #4oceans

Coyote went up the river; bottom, Letting out the salmon. From Curtis 1914: 84-85, illustrated by F. N. Wilson. Ritchie, M. and Angelbeck, B., 2020. “Coyote broke the dams”: Power, reciprocity, and conflict in fish weir narratives and implications for traditional and contemporary fisheries. Ethnohistory, 67(2), pp.191-220.

” House belonging to survivor of the Puget Sound Indian War, Yelm Jim [Wa-he-lut or Wahoolit], seen from across the water. Two men, three women pose in front of fenced house; in foreground is a large fish trap .” Source: http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/loc/id/2092

Yelm Jim’s fish weir on the Puyallup River ca. 1885. Click for high resolution. Source: http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/7DE71DBBEDCF71DCADF61AEFB20FFBA6

Yelm Jim's salmon weir, Puyallup River, Washington State, ca. 1885. Courtesy of the Washington State Archives.

#Indigenoustraditions, #fishweirs and #folklore of #Puyallup peoples of western #Washingtonstate, one #CoastSalish peoples. Historically, people who were moved to the region in the 1880s, and have utilised fisheries for the #salmon run in the area. #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh #4oceans

Bone gorge from Anaro, Itbayat Island (Bellwood and Eusebio, ed. 2013)

Almost certainly the predecessor the modern hook format, the gorge, usually simple needle or spile shape carved from bone or flint with an indent to fix a line. Found in range of archaeological contexts, baited and used on line to hook fish.
#Coastalhistory #tcdtceh

"Fishing with traps" (Visvangst met fuiken), part of the series Venationes, Piscationes et Aucupii Typi. The print was engraved by Philips Galle after a drawing by Hans Bol, and was produced in the late 16th century. It depicts a busy Dutch waterway scene where fishermen are emptying large wicker traps (fuiken) and collecting fish into a boat.

Visvangst met fuiken, #fishweir drawing of the #Netherlands coastline (Hans Bol 1582-1633)"Fishing with traps" (Visvangst met fuiken), part of the Venationes, Piscationes et Aucupii Typi. The print was engraved by Philips Galle after a drawing by Hans Bol, late 16th century. #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh

An example of river bamboo fish weir aka Barrage en bambou, Piege à poissons from #IrrawaddyRiver Near #Kathay, Upper Burma, #Myanmar. The people of Myanmar used a range of fish traps, fish pens and aquaculture to fish and farm fish. #Coastsinmind #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh

Images of eel babbing with a wool line. Concordantiae caritatis - Stiftsbibliothek Lilienfeld 151, c. 1349-135

Common freshwater eel Anguilla anguilla, an Anguillidae

Eel bobbing, Battersea. From a set of six images of angling drawn by Henry Heath. Undated hand-coloured lithograph. This image is a 19th-century British print titled Angling [set of six]: 5. Eel Bobing [sic]-Battersea by Henry Heath. lithographer active between 1824–1835.

Eel fisherman from the 14th century using the lob worm method are threaded lengthwise on a rough twine (sometimes made up of a combination of hemp and wool). This wormline is crowded together and weighted with small lead shots. #Coastsinmind #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh

Image of the fish curing, at #Ardglass is a coastal fishing village, #CoDown #NorthernIreland between ca. 1865-1914. In 1912 early 30,000 barrels of fish and 5,600 tons of fresh fish were exported from County Down. The quantity of herring landed almost broke records. #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh

Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

Wood River, Alaska map showing traps date 1908.

Hand drawn map of fish traps dating from 1908 the Wood River #Alaska. The traps on wood River are fished seasonally for Salmon. The river is frozen much of winter. Prime fishing is mid-June to August, with #salmon, #trout,#grayling and #Char. #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh

Picture of the Oyster Bay stone #fishweirs from Kalgan River

Diagram of Oyster Harbour structures 3 and 4 (see Fig. 1c). Based upon plane table survey by w.e. Dix. Dix, W.C. and Meagher, S.J., 1976. Fish traps in the south-west of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 4(2), pp.171-187.

A photograph of the fish traps taken around 1900 (Supplied: WA Museum)

Title Aerial images Photographer City of Albany Dimensions 1129 x 883, 0.22 MB https://inherit.dplh.wa.gov.au/Public/inventory/Image/9c8acfe6-bbf2-4284-887f-8cd5760825c3

Aerial image of the Oyster Bay stone #fishweirs from Kalgan River, #Albany #WesternAustralia. They were built by #indigenous #Menang #Noongar people, for whom fishing is believed to have been a central part of their culture for generations deep into history. 1/3 #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh

Images of the marine life and hooks from the Minoans/ Mycenaeans rooms at the British Museum. Drawing material from Minoan palace of Knossos and Mycenaean capital Mycenae. Decoratived ceramics wth images of fish, seaweed and marine invertebrates like octopus. #Coastsinmind #Coastalhistory #tcdtceh

Encyclopedia Londinensis was a "universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature" edited by John Wilkes, and published in London in 24 volumes between 1810 and 1829.

Encyclopedia Londinensis was a "universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature" edited by John Wilkes, and published in London in 24 volumes between 1810 and 1829.

Description of whales and primary products (blubber, balen and ambergris of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and the Right whale genus Eubalaena in the Encyclopedia Londinensis edited by J. Wilkes, 24 volumes between 1810/1829. #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Images of the Severn estuary fish traps from the archived of the Thornbury and District Museum

Images of the Severn estuary fish traps from the archived of the Thornbury and District Museum

Images of the Severn estuary fish traps from the archived of the Thornbury and District Museum

Images of the Severn estuary fish traps from the archives of the Thornbury and District Museum. Showing 20th century, kipe, butt and forewheel elements. All three elements would have been connected with withy ties and fixed to the foreshore with large stakes.
#coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Picture of the Stone #fishweir in #fishguard #Bay at low water Fishguard/Abergwaun, Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro, #wales. #oceanaction46159 #unoceandecade #oceandecadeheritage #archaeology #fishweirs #maritimearchaeology #maritimeheritage #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Common whelk (Buccinum undatum) eggs

small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) aka dogfish egg

Margate bed rock chalk bed

A cluster of seaweed and well cakes bound up with multiple strands of monofilament fishing lines.

Sunday walks along the intertidal zone at margate beach Kent England United Kingdom. Margate beach are part of seaford chalk formation, springing up like some old snow on the foreshore. From Cretaceous period, cliffs and an extensive wave-cut platform/reef. #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

A woman collecting fish ca.1892 (Tuke, James H. (James Hack), 1819-1896) Photographs taken by Major Ruttledge-Fair for Mr James Tuke. © National library of Ireland

Fish scales on her hands, her feet in water, the fish baskets by her side taking in the bounty of the sea,
19th century coastal fishing in the west of Ireland artisan fishing, which is subsistence small-scale
commercial near-shore fishing.
#coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Brabazon, W., Cooper, W., & Joly, J. R. (1848). The deep sea and coast fisheries of Ireland: With suggestions for the working of a fishing company. James McGlashan, 21, D'Olier Street.

Wallop Brabazon’s sketch of a hand line for mackerel fishing, 1848. © National Museum of Ireland. Brabazon, W., Cooper, W., & Joly, J. R. (1848). The deep sea and coast fisheries of Ireland: With suggestions for the working of a fishing company. James McGlashan, 21, D'Olier Street.

Ahead of its time Brabazon’s The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, 1848. Brought together ethnographic, ecological and cultural observations of the fishing communities around Irelands coast with beautiful drawings of some tools and techniques used. #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Early 20th Century Print of Ardglass Fish Curing Curing Herrings, Ardglass - a close in view showing workers on the pier cleaning fish. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Ardglass). Date: circa early 1900s. Mary Evans Picture Library makes available wonderful images created for people to enjoy over the centuries. © National Museums NI / Mary Evans

Division of labour? primacy of the sexes? Or just a community functioning as a whole organ entity?
Picture of Curing Herrings, Ardglass pier, with fish ladies/lasses gutting and sallting the herring as they are landed on Northern Ireland Early 20th Century. #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Image of wood fish weir from1930 Wagenia Wagenya Fishermen in the what is now the DRC Congo.

#indigenous #fishweirs Photos dating from 1930s of the #fishweirs of the Wagenia or Wagenya people in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Africa 1/4 #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Traditional Fishing Culture (Wer Warat) in Kei Islands and the Festival of Enchantment Meti Kei https://www.coretanzone.id/.../traditional-fishing...

Traditional Fishing Culture (Wer Warat) in Kei Islands and the Festival of Enchantment Meti Kei https://www.coretanzone.id/.../traditional-fishing...

A traditional fishing method of Wer warat is used on the #MalukuIslands, #Indonesia, involving a long rope bound with coconut fronds to enclose fish at low tide, so they can be speared and netted by the whole community. 1/4 #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Billingsgate Market at 7am, London, 1937

Tower Bridge viewed from the River Thames, London, c1894-1931. Artist: William Lionel Wyllie

19th-century illustration of Thames Lightermen, London Labour and the London Poor, 1861 (Henry Mayhew).

Native oysters (Ostrea edulis) and rock oysters (usually Pacific oysters, Magallana gigas)

From the mud of the up through the waters under London Bridge and into the markets and bellies of its population! The path of the oyster, As old as London itself with oyster mittens being found on many of the earliest Roman sites. #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Aerial view of the Pahonu Pond on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA. Source Google Maps

Stone #fishweirs and their associated technologies are used not only to catch fish but also as capture pens for some marine mammals in the South Pacific. Examples of sea turtle pens have been documented in South Pacific islands such as #Hawaii. 1/4
#coastalhistory #tcdtceh

Fagasa Villagers use a traditional launiu (coconut frond) weir to encircle and catch atule, August 2007 (Photo E. Lilio).

Drawing of fishing in the #Samoa Islands in 1880, communal fish drive.

Drawing of fishing in the #samoa in 1880, communal fish drive, a common group fishing technique alongside of gleaning, diving, rod and line, netting and trapping. Still used by #indigenouspeoples in #samoa and the #pacificocean zone, sometimes called #Atule fishing. #coastalhistory #tcdtceh

Picture of wood #fishweir on the #shuswapriver (dating 1891) river in the northeast of the Okanagan Valley in #BritishColumbia, #Canada originating in the central #Monashee #Mountains. #oceandecadeheritage #archaeology #fishweirs #maritimearchaeology #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Aerial imagery from Northen Ireland collection of fish weir on the Newcastle Bay. Source Google Maps data gathered by P. Montgomery.

Wooden fish weir Strangford Lough Northern Ireland. Picture by Paul Montgomery.

Fisheries on the Brittany foreshore Map of ancient Brittany fisheries recorded in the Amarai database. © LOÏC LANGOUËT Vist the site : Underwater archaeology

#SixNations2026 This annual #rugby competition dating to 1883, with 6 teams ( #England,#Ireland, #Scotland, #Wales, #France, #Italy). One of many traditions/cultural/sport events that link people across the globe. One of these is the common history of using #fishweirs. 1/3 #coastalhistory #tcdtceh

Hand line from the Aran Islands, Co. Galway, 1928. © National Museum of Ireland.

An old photo from the 1930s of an Aran Islander fishing from inside the prehistoric fort of Dún Aengus.

Dún Aonghasa fort Aran Islands of County Galway, Ireland.

Dún Aonghasa (unofficial anglicised version Dun Aengus) is the best-known of several prehistoric hill forts on the Aran Islands of County Galway, Ireland.

An old photo from the 1930s of an #AranIslander fishing Dún Aonghasa is prehistoric coastal fort on the Aran Islands of County #Galway, #Ireland. Fishing with a hand line off the side of the Fort into the waters of the Atlantic. #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

Baby whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus) cruising through the shallows on his way to the baitfish buffet! It's showtime
#coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind