[HN Gopher] Ancient fish traps in a Vancouver Island estuary
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       Ancient fish traps in a Vancouver Island estuary
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2021-08-06 00:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | notsospecialk wrote:
       | Something fishy going on.
        
       | dmix wrote:
       | Reminds me of Australia, the first European explorers going
       | across the mountains that the line the coast came across vast
       | networks of trenched eel traps branching off from various
       | waterways made by an indigenous community and similarly
       | abandoned. Later investigative work show it dated to
       | ~6600-8000yrs ago:
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       | > He found extensive fish-trapping systems, with hundreds of
       | metres of excavated channels and dozens of basalt block dam
       | walls, the volume of which he estimated at "many hundreds of
       | tonnes".
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budj_Bim_heritage_areas#Eel_tr...
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       | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/23/budj-bim...
        
       | walrus01 wrote:
       | See also: the wool dogs of the coast Salish
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       | https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-dogs-that-grew-wo...
        
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