Fisheries of Australia
Publisher: Not Avail
Published: December 1979
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780852381014
Subjects: Aquaculture & fishing: practice & techniques; History of engineering & technology; Australia; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Fisheries
First sentence: Fishing was a major pursuit of Australia's original inhabitants-the a boriginals-who fashioned simple hooks from bone, spears and clubs from wood, and erected barriers and traps in rivers, lakes and along the sea shores to catch fish.