Cedar-getters' camps were raided and tools and food stolen. For many years this state of warfare persisted as Cairns struggled to exist. As settlement spread along the coastal corridor and in the mining areas inland, the confrontation between Blacks and Europeans continued. Settlers' subsistence crops were robbed and the lives of their women and children threatened. But the destruction of natives food sources and the superiority of firearms over spears and nulla nullas eventually ended the uneven conflict.
Aborigines wove their own fish traps to catch fish.
The fish would swim in and due to the construction of the trap, be unable to swim out again . Then it was just a matter of coming back to the trap and collecting the fish inside.