NUMEROUS FISH TRAPS WERE BUILT BY FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE ACROSS AUSTRALIA

• Unfortunately the colonials destroyed most and built fences and chimney’s etc out of many rock fish traps.

Here is an example of possibly a lesser known type

“Kurka gorl”, an Aboriginal fish trap on the Glyde River near Ramingining, north-central Arnhem Land, 1937.

“The principle is that at a high tide fish, stranded higher up by receding flood waters, will try to return to the sea; the gorl therefore gets these fish that have been inland for some time and not fish that have gone up on one tide…” – Photographers note. (Photo: Donald Thomson)