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I want to say that there were fish traps that followed similar designs. Curving walls that led the fish into tidal pools that they couldn't escape when the tide
by johngalt 10y ago
I want to say that there were fish traps that followed similar designs. Curving walls that led the fish into tidal pools that they couldn't escape when the tide went out.
- failrate 10y agoYes, and some river traps work on a similar principle.
- 100pctremote 10y agoThere are many of these ancient fish ponds throughout the Hawaiian islands -- some of them enormous and very pretty.
- 205guy 10y agoI believe Hawaiian fish ponds were for pisciculture--raising fish. Saw a rock marked with a sign in a park, the Hawaiians used the hollowed out part to store fish while transporting between streams and ponds. They were not hunter-gatherers, they were (mostly) farmers.
- troels 10y agoExactly my thoughts. This is a giant fyke, but on land.
- michaelbuckbee 10y agoThe audio's not great. But here's a fish trap using a similar concept to the traps in the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAB7KljY-9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAB7KljY-9E
- PeterWhittaker 10y agoYes, weirs. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_weir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_weir