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href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is an obstruction placed in tidal waters, or wholly or partially across a river, to direct the passage of, or trap fish. A weir may be used to trap marine fish in the <a href="/wiki/Intertidal_zone" title="Intertidal zone">intertidal zone</a> as the tide recedes, fish such as <a href="/wiki/Salmon" title="Salmon">salmon</a> as they attempt to swim upstream to breed in a river, or <a href="/wiki/Eel" title="Eel">eels</a> as they migrate downstream. Alternatively, fish weirs can be used to channel fish to a particular location, such as to a <a href="/wiki/Fish_ladder" title="Fish ladder">fish ladder</a>. Weirs were traditionally built from wood or stones. The use of fishing weirs as <a href="/wiki/Fish_traps" class="mw-redirect" title="Fish traps">fish traps</a> probably dates back prior to the emergence of <a href="/wiki/Modern_human" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern human">modern humans</a>, and have since been used by many societies around the world. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, specific indigenous fishing weirs (a version of the ancient Austronesian stone fish weirs) are also known in English as <b><a href="/wiki/Fish_corral" class="mw-redirect" title="Fish corral">fish corral</a></b> and <b><a href="/wiki/Barrier_net" class="mw-redirect" title="Barrier net">barrier net</a></b>.<sup id="cite_ref-Monteclaro_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Monteclaro-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The English word 'weir' comes from the Anglo-Saxon <i>wer,</i> one meaning of which is a device to trap fish.<sup id="cite_ref-English_Heritage_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-English_Heritage-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fishing_weirs_by_region">Fishing weirs by region</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Fishing weirs by region"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Africa">Africa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A line of stones dating to the <a href="/wiki/Acheulean" title="Acheulean">Acheulean</a> in Kenya may have been a stone tidal weir in a prehistoric lake, which if true would make this technology older than <a href="/wiki/Homo_sapiens" class="mw-redirect" title="Homo sapiens">modern humans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Clark_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Clark-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Americas">Americas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Americas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="North_America">North America</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: North America"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Salmon_weir_at_Quamichan_Village_on_the_Cowichan_River,_Vancouver_Island.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Salmon_weir_at_Quamichan_Village_on_the_Cowichan_River%2C_Vancouver_Island.jpg/220px-Salmon_weir_at_Quamichan_Village_on_the_Cowichan_River%2C_Vancouver_Island.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Salmon_weir_at_Quamichan_Village_on_the_Cowichan_River%2C_Vancouver_Island.jpg/330px-Salmon_weir_at_Quamichan_Village_on_the_Cowichan_River%2C_Vancouver_Island.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Salmon_weir_at_Quamichan_Village_on_the_Cowichan_River%2C_Vancouver_Island.jpg/440px-Salmon_weir_at_Quamichan_Village_on_the_Cowichan_River%2C_Vancouver_Island.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="421" /></a><figcaption>Salmon weir at Quamichan Village on the <a href="/wiki/Cowichan_River" title="Cowichan River">Cowichan River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vancouver_Island" title="Vancouver Island">Vancouver Island</a>, c. 1866</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Indians_fishing_de_bry.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Indians_fishing_de_bry.jpg/220px-Indians_fishing_de_bry.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Indians_fishing_de_bry.jpg/330px-Indians_fishing_de_bry.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Indians_fishing_de_bry.jpg/440px-Indians_fishing_de_bry.jpg 2x" data-file-width="527" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Algonquian_peoples" title="Algonquian peoples">Algonquin</a> fishing with weir and spears in a dugout canoe. After a drawing by colonist <a href="/wiki/John_White_(colonist_and_artist)" title="John White (colonist and artist)">John White</a> (1585).</figcaption></figure> <p>In September 2014 researchers from University of Victoria investigated what may turn out to be a 14,000-year-old fish weir in 120 ft (37 m) of water off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Haida_Gwaii" title="Haida Gwaii">Haida Gwaii</a>, British Columbia.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Virginia, the Native Americans built V-shaped stone weirs in the <a href="/wiki/Potomac_River" title="Potomac River">Potomac River</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_River" title="James River">James River</a>. These were described in 1705 in <i>The History and Present State of Virginia, In Four Parts</i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Beverley,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Beverley, Jr.">Robert Beverley Jr</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>At the falls of the Rivers, where the Water is shallow, and the Current strong, the Indians use another kind of Weir thus made. They make a Dam of loose stone where of there is plenty on hand, quite across the River, leaving One, Two or more Spaces or Tunnels, for the water to pass thro': at the Mouth of which they set a Pot of Reeds, Wove in form of a Cone, whose Base is about Three Foot, and in Perpendicular Ten, into which the Swiftness of the Current carries the Fish, and wedges them in fast, that they cannot possibly return.<sup id="cite_ref-Hranicky_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hranicky-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>This practice was taken up by the early settlers but the <a href="/wiki/Maryland_General_Assembly" title="Maryland General Assembly">Maryland General Assembly</a> ordered the weirs to be destroyed on the Potomac in 1768. Between 1768 and 1828 considerable efforts were made to destroy fish weirs that were an obstruction to navigation and from the mid-1800s, those that were assumed to be detrimental to sports fishing.<sup id="cite_ref-Hranicky_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hranicky-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston" title="Back Bay, Boston">Back Bay</a> area of Boston, Massachusetts, wooden stake remains of the <a href="/wiki/Boylston_Street_Fishweir" title="Boylston Street Fishweir">Boylston Street Fishweir</a> have been documented during excavations for subway tunnels and building foundations. The Boylston Street Fishweir was actually a series of fish weirs built and maintained near the tidal shoreline between 3,700 and 5,200 years ago. </p><p>Natives in <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a> use weirs that stretch across the entire river to retain <a href="/wiki/Shad" class="mw-redirect" title="Shad">shad</a> during their seasonal runs up the <a href="/wiki/Shubenacadie_River" title="Shubenacadie River">Shubenacadie</a>, Nine Mile, and Stewiacke rivers, and use nets to scoop the trapped fish. Various weir patterns were used on <a href="/wiki/Tide" title="Tide">tidal</a> waters to retain a variety of different species, which are still used today. V-shaped weirs with circular formations to hold the fish during high tides are used on the <a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy" title="Bay of Fundy">Bay of Fundy</a> to fish <a href="/wiki/Herring" title="Herring">herring</a>, which follow the flow of water. Similar V-shaped weirs are also used in <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a> to corral salmon to the end of the "V" during the changing of the tides. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cree" title="Cree">Cree</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Hudson_Bay_Lowlands" title="Hudson Bay Lowlands">Hudson Bay Lowlands</a> used weirs consisting of a fence of poles and a trap across fast flowing rivers. The fish were channelled by the poles up a ramp and into a box-like structure made of poles lashed together. The top of the ramp remained below the surface of the water but slightly above the top of the box so that the flow of the water and the overhang of the ramp stopped the fish from escaping from the box. The fish were then scooped out of the box with a dip net.<sup id="cite_ref-Lytwyn_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lytwyn-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="South_America">South America</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: South America"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A large series of fish weirs, canals and artificial islands was built by an unknown pre-Columbian culture in the <a href="/wiki/Baures_Municipality" title="Baures Municipality">Baures region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/Llanos_de_Moxos" title="Llanos de Moxos">Llanos de Moxos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Nature_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nature-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These earthworks cover over 500 square kilometres (190 sq mi), and appear to have supported a large and dense population around 3000 BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-UPenn_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UPenn-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stone fish weirs were in use 6,000 years ago in <a href="/wiki/Chilo%C3%A9_Island" title="Chiloé Island">Chiloé Island</a> off the coast of Chile.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Asia_and_Oceania">Asia and Oceania</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Asia and Oceania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Double-Heart_of_Stacked_Stones_20150721.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Double-Heart_of_Stacked_Stones_20150721.jpg/220px-Double-Heart_of_Stacked_Stones_20150721.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Double-Heart_of_Stacked_Stones_20150721.jpg/330px-Double-Heart_of_Stacked_Stones_20150721.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Double-Heart_of_Stacked_Stones_20150721.jpg/440px-Double-Heart_of_Stacked_Stones_20150721.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1066" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Double-Heart_of_Stacked_Stones" title="Double-Heart of Stacked Stones">Double-Heart of Stacked Stones</a> fishing weir in <a href="/wiki/Penghu" title="Penghu">Penghu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aiopio_Fish_trap_at_Honokohau.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Aiopio_Fish_trap_at_Honokohau.jpg/220px-Aiopio_Fish_trap_at_Honokohau.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Aiopio_Fish_trap_at_Honokohau.jpg/330px-Aiopio_Fish_trap_at_Honokohau.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Aiopio_Fish_trap_at_Honokohau.jpg/440px-Aiopio_Fish_trap_at_Honokohau.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>The ancient 'Ai'opio stone fish trap in <a href="/wiki/Kaloko-Honok%C5%8Dhau_National_Historical_Park" title="Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park">Honokohau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fish_trap,_Pango,_Efate,_Vanuatu,_April_2008_-_Flickr_-_PhillipC_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Fish_trap%2C_Pango%2C_Efate%2C_Vanuatu%2C_April_2008_-_Flickr_-_PhillipC_%281%29.jpg/220px-Fish_trap%2C_Pango%2C_Efate%2C_Vanuatu%2C_April_2008_-_Flickr_-_PhillipC_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Fish_trap%2C_Pango%2C_Efate%2C_Vanuatu%2C_April_2008_-_Flickr_-_PhillipC_%281%29.jpg/330px-Fish_trap%2C_Pango%2C_Efate%2C_Vanuatu%2C_April_2008_-_Flickr_-_PhillipC_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Fish_trap%2C_Pango%2C_Efate%2C_Vanuatu%2C_April_2008_-_Flickr_-_PhillipC_%281%29.jpg/440px-Fish_trap%2C_Pango%2C_Efate%2C_Vanuatu%2C_April_2008_-_Flickr_-_PhillipC_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3706" data-file-height="2395" /></a><figcaption>A fishing weir in <a href="/wiki/Efate" title="Efate">Efate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vanuatu" title="Vanuatu">Vanuatu</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Tidal stone fish weirs are one of the ancestral fishing technologies of the seafaring <a href="/wiki/Austronesian_peoples" title="Austronesian peoples">Austronesian peoples</a>. They are found throughout regions settled by Austronesians during the Austronesian expansion (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 3000 to 1500 BCE</span>) and are very similar in shape and construction throughout. In some regions they have also been adopted into fish pens or use more perishable materials like bamboo, brushwood, and netting. They are found in the highest concentrations in <a href="/wiki/Penghu_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Penghu Island">Penghu Island</a> in <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, and all throughout <a href="/wiki/Micronesia" title="Micronesia">Micronesia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Jeffery1_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jeffery1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jeffery2_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jeffery2-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chen_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chen-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Iwabuchi_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iwabuchi-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are also prevalent in <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Indonesia" title="Eastern Indonesia">eastern Indonesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melanesia" title="Melanesia">Melanesia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesia</a>. Around 500 stone weirs survive in Taiwan, and millions of stone weirs used to exist through all of the islands of Micronesia. They are known as <span title="Cebuano-language text"><i lang="ceb">atob</i></span> in the <a href="/wiki/Visayas_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Visayas Islands">Visayas Islands</a> of the Philippines, <span title="Chuukese-language text"><i lang="chk">maai</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Chuuk_State" title="Chuuk State">Chuuk</a>, <span title="Yapese-language text"><i lang="yap">aech</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Yap" title="Yap">Yap</a>, <span title="Hawaiian-language text"><i lang="haw">loko ‘umeiki</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>, and <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi">pā</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, among other names.<sup id="cite_ref-Iwabuchi_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iwabuchi-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The oldest known example of a stone fish weir in Taiwan was constructed by the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_Taiwanese" class="mw-redirect" title="Indigenous Taiwanese">indigenous</a> <a href="/wiki/Taokas_people" title="Taokas people">Taokas people</a> in <a href="/wiki/Miaoli_County" title="Miaoli County">Miaoli County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chen_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chen-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most stone fish weirs are believed to also be ancient, but few studies have been conducted into their antiquity as they are difficult to determine due to being continually rebuilt in the same location.<sup id="cite_ref-Iwabuchi_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iwabuchi-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The technology of tidal stone fish weirs has also spread to neighboring regions when Taiwan came under the jurisdiction of <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> and <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Japan">Imperial Japan</a> in recent centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-Chen_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chen-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are known as <span title="Japanese-language text"><i lang="ja">ishihibi</i></span> or <span title="Japanese-language text"><i lang="ja">sukki</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Kyushu" title="Kyushu">Kyushu</a>, <span title="Japanese-language text"><i lang="ja">kaki</i></span> in the <a href="/wiki/Ryukyu_Islands" title="Ryukyu Islands">Ryukyu Islands</a>; <span title="Korean-language text"><i lang="ko">dŏksal</i></span>, <span title="Korean-language text"><i lang="ko">sŏkpangryŏm</i></span>, <span title="Korean-language text"><i lang="ko">sŏkchŏn</i></span>, or <span title="Korean-language text"><i lang="ko">wŏn</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a> (pariticularly <a href="/wiki/Jeju_Island" title="Jeju Island">Jeju Island</a>); and <span title="Min Nan Chinese-language text"><i lang="nan">chioh-ho</i></span> in Taiwan.<sup id="cite_ref-Iwabuchi_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iwabuchi-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Han_Chinese" title="Han Chinese">Han Chinese</a> also had separate ancient fish weir techniques, known as <span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh">hu</i></span>, which use bamboo gates or "curtains" in river estuaries. These date back to at least the 7th century in China.<sup id="cite_ref-Chen_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chen-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Europe">Europe</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">medieval Europe</a>, large fishing weir structures were constructed from wood posts and wattle fences. V-shaped structures in rivers could be as long as 60 m (200 ft) and worked by directing fish towards fish traps or nets. Such weirs were frequently the cause of disputes between various classes of river users and tenants of neighbouring land. Basket weir fish traps are shown in medieval illustrations and surviving examples have been found. Basket weirs are about 2 m (6.6 ft) long and comprise two wicker cones, one inside the other—easy for fish to get into but difficult to escape.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Great_Britain">Great Britain</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Great Britain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Great Britain the traditional form was one or more rock weirs constructed in <a href="/wiki/Tidal_race" title="Tidal race">tidal races</a> or on a sandy beach, with a small gap that could be blocked by <a href="/wiki/Wattle_(construction)" title="Wattle (construction)">wattle</a> fences when the tide turned to flow out again. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Wales">Wales</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Wales"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fish_weir,_Lligwy_beach.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Fish_weir%2C_Lligwy_beach.jpg/220px-Fish_weir%2C_Lligwy_beach.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Fish_weir%2C_Lligwy_beach.jpg/330px-Fish_weir%2C_Lligwy_beach.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Fish_weir%2C_Lligwy_beach.jpg/440px-Fish_weir%2C_Lligwy_beach.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4128" data-file-height="2322" /></a><figcaption>Remains of a medieval fish weir just above the low water mark at <a href="/wiki/Lligwy_Bay" title="Lligwy Bay">Traeth Lligwy</a>, Anglesey</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gorad_Gwyrfai_Fishweir.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Gorad_Gwyrfai_Fishweir.jpg/300px-Gorad_Gwyrfai_Fishweir.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Gorad_Gwyrfai_Fishweir.jpg/450px-Gorad_Gwyrfai_Fishweir.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Gorad_Gwyrfai_Fishweir.jpg/600px-Gorad_Gwyrfai_Fishweir.jpg 2x" data-file-width="16382" data-file-height="3778" /></a><figcaption>Gorad Gwyrfai fish weir near Caernarfon, Wales</figcaption></figure> <p>Surviving examples, but no longer in use, can be seen in the <a href="/wiki/Menai_Strait" title="Menai Strait">Menai Strait</a>, with the best preserved examples to be found at <a href="/wiki/Ynys_Gored_Goch" title="Ynys Gored Goch">Ynys Gored Goch</a> (Red Weir Island) dating back to around 1842.<sup id="cite_ref-Menai_Heritage_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Menai_Heritage-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also surviving are 'goredi' (originally twelve in number) on the beach at <a href="/wiki/Aberarth" title="Aberarth">Aberarth</a>, Ceredigion. Another ancient example was at <a href="/wiki/Rhos-on-Sea#Rhos_Fynach" title="Rhos-on-Sea">Rhos Fynach</a> in North Wales, which survived in use until <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The medieval fish weir at <a href="/wiki/Lligwy_Bay" title="Lligwy Bay">Traeth Lligwy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moelfre,_Anglesey" title="Moelfre, Anglesey">Moelfre, Anglesey</a> was scheduled as an <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Monument" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Monument">Ancient Monument</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-Lligwy_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lligwy-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="England">England</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fish weirs were an obstacle to shipping and a threat to fish stocks, for which reasons over the course of history several attempts were made to control their proliferation. The <a href="/wiki/Magna_Carta" title="Magna Carta">Magna Carta</a> of 1215 includes a clause embodying the barons' demands for the removal of the king's weirs and others: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>All fish-weirs shall be removed from the Thames, the Medway, and throughout the whole of England, except on the sea coast.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>A statute was passed during the reign of King <a href="/wiki/Edward_III_of_England" title="Edward III of England">Edward III</a> (1327–1377) and was reaffirmed by King <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward IV of England">Edward IV</a> in 1472<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A further regulation was enacted under King <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a>, apparently at the instigation of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell" title="Thomas Cromwell">Thomas Cromwell</a>, when in 1535 commissioners were appointed in each county to oversee the "putting-down" of weirs. The words of the commission were as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p> All weirs noisome to the passage of ships or boats to the hurt of passages or ways and causeys <i>(i.e. causeways)</i> shall be pulled down and those that be occasion of drowning of any lands or pastures by stopping of waters and also those that are the destruction of the increase of fish, by the discretion of the commissioners, so that if any of the before-mentioned depend or may grow by reason of the same weir then there is no redemption but to pull them down, although the same weirs have stood since 500 years before the <a href="/wiki/Norman_Conquest" title="Norman Conquest">Conquest</a>.</p></blockquote> <p>The king did not exempt himself from the regulation and by the destruction of royal weirs lost 500 <a href="/wiki/Mark_(currency)" title="Mark (currency)">marks</a> in annual income.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Lisle_Letters" class="mw-redirect" title="Lisle Letters">Lisle Papers</a> provide a detailed contemporary narrative of the struggle of the owners of the weir at <a href="/wiki/Umberleigh" title="Umberleigh">Umberleigh</a> in Devon to be exempted from this 1535 regulation.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Salmon_Fishery_Act_1861&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Salmon Fishery Act 1861 (page does not exist)">Salmon Fishery Act 1861</a> (<a href="/wiki/24_%26_25_Vict." class="mw-redirect" title="24 & 25 Vict.">24 & 25 Vict.</a> c. 109) (relevant provisions re-enacted since) bans their use except wherever their almost continuous use can be traced to before the <a href="/wiki/Magna_Carta" title="Magna Carta">Magna Carta</a> (1215). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ireland">Ireland</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>, discoveries of fish traps associated with weirs have been dated to 8,000 years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-English_Heritage_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-English_Heritage-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stone tidal weirs were used around the world and by 1707, 160 such structures, some of which reached 360 metres in length, were in use along the coast of the <a href="/wiki/Shimabara_Peninsula" title="Shimabara Peninsula">Shimabara Peninsula</a> of Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-Nishimura_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nishimura-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 195px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 190px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%85leg%C3%A5rd.gif" class="mw-file-description" title="19th-century fishing weir used to trap eels on the Danish coast"><img alt="19th-century fishing weir used to trap eels on the Danish coast" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/%C3%85leg%C3%A5rd.gif/160px-%C3%85leg%C3%A5rd.gif" decoding="async" width="160" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/%C3%85leg%C3%A5rd.gif/240px-%C3%85leg%C3%A5rd.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/%C3%85leg%C3%A5rd.gif/320px-%C3%85leg%C3%A5rd.gif 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="499" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">19th-century fishing weir used to trap eels on the Danish coast</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 195px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 190px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Indian_fish_weir_Smith_River_Henry_County_Virginia.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="The Martinsville Fish Dam Virginia, an historic Native American Indian fishing weir built with rocks"><img alt="The Martinsville Fish Dam Virginia, an historic Native American Indian fishing weir built with rocks" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Indian_fish_weir_Smith_River_Henry_County_Virginia.JPG/160px-Indian_fish_weir_Smith_River_Henry_County_Virginia.JPG" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Indian_fish_weir_Smith_River_Henry_County_Virginia.JPG/240px-Indian_fish_weir_Smith_River_Henry_County_Virginia.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Indian_fish_weir_Smith_River_Henry_County_Virginia.JPG/320px-Indian_fish_weir_Smith_River_Henry_County_Virginia.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/wiki/Martinsville_Fish_Dam" title="Martinsville Fish Dam">Martinsville Fish Dam</a> Virginia, an historic Native American Indian fishing weir built with rocks</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 195px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 190px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fish_trap_Menai_Strait.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Remains of an ancient stone fishing weir in the tidal Menai Strait in Wales"><img alt="Remains of an ancient stone fishing weir in the tidal Menai Strait in Wales" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Fish_trap_Menai_Strait.jpg/160px-Fish_trap_Menai_Strait.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Fish_trap_Menai_Strait.jpg/240px-Fish_trap_Menai_Strait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Fish_trap_Menai_Strait.jpg/320px-Fish_trap_Menai_Strait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="937" data-file-height="691" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Remains of an ancient stone fishing weir in the tidal <a href="/wiki/Menai_Strait" title="Menai Strait">Menai Strait</a> in Wales</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 195px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 190px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%E6%BE%8E%E6%B9%96%E7%9F%B3%E6%BB%AC_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fishing weir, Penghu County"><img alt="Fishing weir, Penghu County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/%E6%BE%8E%E6%B9%96%E7%9F%B3%E6%BB%AC_1.jpg/160px-%E6%BE%8E%E6%B9%96%E7%9F%B3%E6%BB%AC_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/%E6%BE%8E%E6%B9%96%E7%9F%B3%E6%BB%AC_1.jpg/240px-%E6%BE%8E%E6%B9%96%E7%9F%B3%E6%BB%AC_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/%E6%BE%8E%E6%B9%96%E7%9F%B3%E6%BB%AC_1.jpg/320px-%E6%BE%8E%E6%B9%96%E7%9F%B3%E6%BB%AC_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Fishing weir, <a href="/wiki/Penghu" title="Penghu">Penghu</a> County</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 195px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 190px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Yana.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fishing weir on the rapidly flowing Mogami River in Japan"><img alt="Fishing weir on the rapidly flowing Mogami River in Japan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Yana.jpg/160px-Yana.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Yana.jpg/240px-Yana.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Yana.jpg/320px-Yana.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Fishing weir on the rapidly flowing <a href="/wiki/Mogami_River" title="Mogami River">Mogami River</a> in Japan</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 195px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 190px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fishing_at_the_falls_-_Julien_Harneis_-_February_28,_2007_-_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fishing weirs using baskets at a river waterfall, Democratic Republic of the Congo"><img alt="Fishing weirs using baskets at a river waterfall, Democratic Republic of the Congo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Fishing_at_the_falls_-_Julien_Harneis_-_February_28%2C_2007_-_1.jpg/160px-Fishing_at_the_falls_-_Julien_Harneis_-_February_28%2C_2007_-_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Fishing_at_the_falls_-_Julien_Harneis_-_February_28%2C_2007_-_1.jpg/240px-Fishing_at_the_falls_-_Julien_Harneis_-_February_28%2C_2007_-_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Fishing_at_the_falls_-_Julien_Harneis_-_February_28%2C_2007_-_1.jpg/320px-Fishing_at_the_falls_-_Julien_Harneis_-_February_28%2C_2007_-_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Fishing weirs using baskets at a river waterfall, <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 195px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 190px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ancient_Fishing_Weir_-_geograph.org.uk_-_637068.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ancient V-shaped fishing weir at Countisbury Cove, Somerset"><img alt="Ancient V-shaped fishing weir at Countisbury Cove, Somerset" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Ancient_Fishing_Weir_-_geograph.org.uk_-_637068.jpg/90px-Ancient_Fishing_Weir_-_geograph.org.uk_-_637068.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Ancient_Fishing_Weir_-_geograph.org.uk_-_637068.jpg/135px-Ancient_Fishing_Weir_-_geograph.org.uk_-_637068.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Ancient_Fishing_Weir_-_geograph.org.uk_-_637068.jpg/180px-Ancient_Fishing_Weir_-_geograph.org.uk_-_637068.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ancient V-shaped fishing weir at Countisbury Cove, <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 195px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 190px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Weervisserij_Oosterschelde.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Modern anchovy weir in the Oosterschelde near Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands (aerial view)"><img alt="Modern anchovy weir in the Oosterschelde near Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands (aerial view)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Weervisserij_Oosterschelde.jpg/160px-Weervisserij_Oosterschelde.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Weervisserij_Oosterschelde.jpg/240px-Weervisserij_Oosterschelde.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Weervisserij_Oosterschelde.jpg/320px-Weervisserij_Oosterschelde.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="402" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Modern <a href="/wiki/European_anchovy" title="European anchovy">anchovy</a> weir in the <a href="/wiki/Oosterschelde" class="mw-redirect" title="Oosterschelde">Oosterschelde</a> near <a href="/wiki/Bergen_op_Zoom" title="Bergen op Zoom">Bergen op Zoom</a> in the Netherlands (aerial view)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Desert_kite" title="Desert kite">Desert kite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fish_screen" title="Fish screen">Fish screen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mnjikaning_Fish_Weirs" title="Mnjikaning Fish Weirs">Mnjikaning Fish Weirs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tailrace_fishing" title="Tailrace fishing">Tailrace fishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weir" title="Weir">Weir</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fishing_weir&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bait_fish" title="Bait fish">Bait fish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boilie" title="Boilie">Boilies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chumming" title="Chumming">Chum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clonk_(fishing)" title="Clonk (fishing)">Clonk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groundbait" title="Groundbait">Groundbait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vermicompost" title="Vermicompost">Vermicompost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worm_charming" title="Worm charming">Worm charming</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.5em"><a href="/wiki/Soft_plastic_bait" title="Soft plastic bait">Plastic bait</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deadsticking" title="Deadsticking">Deadsticking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plastic_worm" title="Plastic worm">Plastic worm</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.5em"><a href="/wiki/Fishing_lure" title="Fishing lure">Fishing lures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artificial_fly" title="Artificial fly">Artificial fly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heddon_(brand)" title="Heddon (brand)">Heddon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Cleo" title="Little Cleo">Little Cleo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mormyshka" title="Mormyshka">Mormyshka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Original_Floater" title="Original Floater">Original Floater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plug_(fishing)" title="Plug (fishing)">Plug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabiki" title="Sabiki">Sabiki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spinnerbait" title="Spinnerbait">Spinnerbait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spoon_lure" title="Spoon lure">Spoon lure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spoonplug" class="mw-redirect" title="Spoonplug">Spoonplug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surface_lure" title="Surface lure">Surface lure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swimbait" title="Swimbait">Swimbait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topwater_fishing_lure" title="Topwater fishing lure">Topwater lure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zara_Spook" title="Zara Spook">Zara Spook</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.5em"><a href="/wiki/Bite_indicator" title="Bite indicator">Bite indicators</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fishing_float" title="Fishing float">Fishing float</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pellet_waggler" title="Pellet waggler">Pellet waggler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shortfloating" title="Shortfloating">Shortfloating</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quiver_tip" title="Quiver tip">Quiver tip</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.5em"><a href="/wiki/Rig_(fishing)" title="Rig (fishing)">Fishing rig</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carolina_rig" title="Carolina rig">Carolina rig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chod_rig" title="Chod rig">Chod rig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dropshotting" title="Dropshotting">Drop shot rig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hair_rig" title="Hair rig">Hair rig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_rig" title="Texas rig">Texas rig</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.5em">Apparel</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Creel_(basket)" title="Creel (basket)">Creel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diving_mask" title="Diving mask">Diving mask</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hip_boot" title="Hip boot">Hip boot</a></li> <li><a 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Fishing_techniques29" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Fishing_techniques" title="Fishing techniques">Fishing techniques</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.5em">Gathering</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abalone#Sport_harvesting" title="Abalone">Abalone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ama_(diving)" title="Ama (diving)">Ama divers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clam_digging" title="Clam digging">Clam digging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flounder_tramping" title="Flounder tramping">Flounder tramping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gathering_seafood_by_hand" class="mw-redirect" title="Gathering seafood by hand">Gathering seafood by hand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noodling" title="Noodling">Noodling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pearl_hunting" title="Pearl hunting">Pearl hunting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scallop_aquaculture" title="Scallop aquaculture">Scallop aquaculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trout_binning" title="Trout binning">Trout binning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trout_tickling" title="Trout tickling">Trout tickling</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.5em">Spears</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bowfishing" title="Bowfishing">Bowfishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gigging" title="Gigging">Gigging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpoon" title="Harpoon">Harpoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_sling" title="Hawaiian sling">Hawaiian sling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polespear" 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