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Crab and fish trap
🕑 Added 2024-01-04 21:23:51 +0000 UTCI made a fish trap and caught various aquatic animals in the creek over the course of a full year during different seasons. The trap is simple to make and requires no bait to work. All the animals were caught and released, but it is feasible that many traps could provide a source of protein in a given stretch of creek provided it contains fish and crustaceans. Also included in the video is a clip of the huts during the wet season, they survived but the natural draft furnace was destroyed in the deluge. This part of the year generally slows projects down due to the constant rain. Much appreciated.
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Primitive Technology
Thanks, it depends on the area though and how much food there is. I'm not sure about the community chat function, but if you make a comment on a post I get an email notification. Thanks.
Marnix de Willigen
A nice video, really shows that knowledge can keep you eating! Really bugs me on 'survival shows' that they keep being hungry. Another question tho. Is there a community chat? Perhaps to ask question about the channel? Or is that something our creator (😀) doesn't like..
Primitive Technology
Yes, should be easy to make, uses coil weaving. Also, seems to be in one piece instead of having a separate funnel. The inverted opening mustn't be important for eels.
Kenneth Crips
Here is a Aboriginal design.https://www.sea.museum/2017/01/11/an-australian-stonehenge
Primitive Technology
I just researched the legality of spearing, here we can't spear in fresh water, only in tidal areas. But baited eel traps and round traps are ok.
Kenneth Crips
The ones used by the Indians in the Great Lakes region of US would work. The spear part is iron, but there is no reason why a easy to replace sharpened wooden one would not work. https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/la-peche-a-l-anguille_eel-fishing/gallery/1265-2/
Primitive Technology
Yes I was just looking at eel gleves yesterday which are sort of many pronged harpoons with back facing teeth. They were made of wrought iron in England but could easily be made of wood and still function the same.
Kenneth Crips
In North America Native Americans had very effective fish spears. Most were made entirely out of wood. There are spears specifically designed for eels.
Primitive Technology
Yes that's been my observation too, when it rains they swim upstream and are actively moving against the current. The aborigines made long baskets that looked like windsocks for the purpose of catching eels, they didn't even have the inverted funnel shape this trap had, just a flanged opening. Something like that should work I think.
Kenneth Crips
In the case of the eels. you want something that can naturally swim into and not get out of. It isn't that they are looking for someplace to hide you just place the trap where they can swim into it on their way up and down the river.
Primitive Technology
Will do, there's still a long wet season ahead and there should be more opportunities to catch them. The rain slows down other projects related to fire and drying clay.
Kenneth Crips
Go on Youtube there are a number videos of eel fisherman in the UK. You can copy the traps they make, and their technique.
Primitive Technology
It was disappointing not to catch any. I think it would be feasible to spear them though. Those over 30 cm are legal to catch I believe. I once heard someone say they would club eels when they swim up the rivers in heavy rain.
Primitive Technology
Yes it's funny to watch, it must be similar to their mating call.
Kenneth Crips
Very interesting, Australian Short finned eels, One of the Native Cichlid fish species, a Freshwater River swimming crab, and river prawns. The eels are the most edible. Your version of a British Eel trap looks good.
Amy Tobol
Oh no way! Try to film that next time it happens! You got friends everywhere out there! The Cicada Whisperer!
Primitive Technology
Yes, I hadn't seen this type before, it seems to be adapted to camouflaging against stones and sand. Thanks.
Primitive Technology
Transparent glass too. For now a terracotta aquarium will have to do. I guess the bait for this trap is also finding a potential shelter from predators to live in. Thanks.
Faralis
Impressive, a video a year in the making. I really liked the "Interesting frog" interrupt.
Primitive Technology
We get cicadas here too, at the right time or season when I make fire rubbing the sticks together they land on my hands because of the squeaking sound it makes. Never thought to film it though.
Amy Tobol
Now you have to learn to make glass so you can put your new friends in an aquarium! I did not realize that you don't need bait. I guess the "bait" is the natural tendency to forage.
Brock Angelo
Oh my goodness, the ambient noise in this video is crazy - like cicadas in the US.
