From Fish Weir to Waterfall

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Tollefson ◽  
Martin L. Abbott
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip LaPorta ◽  
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Margaret Brewer-LaPorta ◽  
Robert Dunay ◽  
Scott A. Minchak

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 534-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madonna L. Moss ◽  
Jon M. Erlandson ◽  
Robert Stuckenrath

A series of 29 radiocarbon dates from 11 sites on Admiralty Island span the last 3,200 calendar years. Although our research corroborates many of the results of de Laguna's (1960) earlier work in the area, we find the Tlingit settlement pattern to be at least 1,600 years old, significantly older than previously believed. Dating of a wooden fish weir demonstrates that mass harvesting of salmon has an antiquity of at least 3,000 years.


Antiquity ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 25 (97) ◽  
pp. 32-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur E. J. Went
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1927 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C. Willoughby
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Author(s):  
Michael J. Dadswell ◽  
George Nau ◽  
Michael J.W. Stokesbury

A shortnose sturgeon was caught in fisherman Wayne Linkletter’s intertidal fish weir in Minas Basin near Economy, Nova Scotia, on June 29, 2013. It was an adult, 73.7 cm fork length and weighed ~4.5 kg. Fishers in Minas Basin relate that they have captured shortnose sturgeons in their weirs in the past decade (1 or 2 fish/y) but this is the first sighting verified by photographic evidence. In Canada shortnose sturgeons were previously known only from the Saint John River and Harbour. The new record extends the coastal range of the species by approximately 165 km and is a new addition to the fish fauna of Nova Scotia.


Science Scope ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 038 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Kern ◽  
Melinda Howard ◽  
Aimee Navickis-Brasch ◽  
Fritz Fiedler ◽  
Jillian Cadwell

Author(s):  
Thuareag Monteiro Trindade dos Santos ◽  
Daiane Aviz

AbstractThe present study investigated the effects of a fish weir, a fixed trap used by artisanal fisheries, on the intertidal macrobenthic infauna of a macrotidal sandy beach on the Amazon coast. Biological and sediment samples were collected from within the weir and at five points of increasing distance (10 cm, 50 cm, 1 m, 2 m, 5 m and 50 m) from the external portion of the trap. The sediments from the weir and at 10 cm were dominated by mud, with a gradual decline in fine grains, water content and organic matter with increasing distance from the weir to 50 m (control). Taxon abundance and richness were significantly higher in the weir and at 10 cm than at the other sampling points. There was a trend of decreasing density and richness of the infauna from the weir to 1 m (which was a point of transition between the muddy and sandy sediments), after which the biological descriptors tended to increase once again. A shift was also observed in the dominant trophic groups, with a decrease in the abundance of the deposit feeders with increasing distance from the weir. By contrast, predators were more abundant at the points further from the weir. Our results indicate that fish weirs alter the associated sedimentary habitats, due to the increased protection from the action of waves and currents, with a micro-scale (from a few centimetres to 1–2 m) influence on the local macrofauna.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 1341284 ◽  
Author(s):  
William I. Atlas ◽  
William G. Housty ◽  
Audrey Béliveau ◽  
Bryant DeRoy ◽  
Grant Callegari ◽  
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Radiocarbon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Anders Fischer ◽  
Jesper Olsen

ABSTRACT The Nekselø Wickerwork provides an unusually solid estimate on the marine reservoir age in the Holocene. The basis for this result is a 5200-year-old fish weir, built of hazel wood with a brief biological age of its own. Oysters settled on this construction. They had lived only for a short number of years when the fence capsized and was covered in mud and the mollusks suffocated. Based on the difference in radiocarbon (14C) age between accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) samples of oyster shells and wood, respectively, the marine reservoir age for this site is estimated to 273 ± 18 14C years. Re-evaluations of previously produced data from geological and archaeological sites of Holocene date in the Danish archipelago indicate marine reservoir ages in the same order as that of the Wickerwork. Consequently, we recommend the use of the new value, rather than the ca. 400 14C years hitherto favored, when correcting for the dietary induced reservoir effect in radiocarbon dates of humans and animals from the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic periods of this region.


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