In the case of the ‘Lady Annesley’s traps’ a stone #fishweir located at Newcastle Beach. The beach, has a very gentle slope and an extensive intertidal zone of of almost 400 metres at average low tide, making it an ideal location for building intertidal structures. 2/2 #coastalhistory #muSEAum

Below ice fish trapping in Arctic and Subarctic. Examples of fish weirs in Siberia fished during frozen winters. Images of #Mansi #fishweir 1903 in a stream, #Janytshkova, #Siberia. The Mansi are an Ugric #indigenouspeople living in Khanty–Mansia Tyumen Oblast, #Russia.
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An example of one of the stone #fishweir known as “shi hu”(石滬) from #Penghu, #Taiwan. On of huge number of stone weirs found along the shores of the #Penghu Islands.
Picture by Prof. 李明儒/Ming-Ju Lee
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