Shrimp fishing by bamboo traps

Discussion in 'Back to Basics' started by melvin west, Jun 20, 2018.


  1. melvin west

    melvin west Monkey

    As aborigines shared, the most effective way to catch shrimps is dropping bamboo traps in the edge of water. Therefore, they spend much of their time on making traps and going shrimp fishing to make food.

    Making bamboo traps for shrimp catching requires much of workmanship, from choosing materials to wickerwork. Split laths should be made from Neohouzeaua, and then soaked into the river to enhance their toughness. Each lath is about 60cm in length, small and lacquer-drawn, and the distance between the laths shouldn’t be too scattered.

    The bamboo shrimp traps are created by the skillful hands of aborigines.

    However, baits are still necessary to attract shrimps to come inside the trap. Those baits are often savory burned pork skin.

    After placing the baits into the trap, the trap is tied to two heavy rocks by rope and dropped into the water so that it is suspended in water surface. They drop about 100 shrimp traps into the river.

    Next day, they continue pulling up the traps. After taking out the shrimps, they put other baits into the traps and then throw it again. This procedure is repeated day by day.


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    After catching shrimps, they started to cook them in a strange way. The materials to cook shrimps include tomatoes, potatoes, chillies, lemons and other seasons. They mixed shrimps with these materials and covered the food by a silver paper. After that, they put this package on charcoal. After around 15 minutes, they took this package out and started to enjoy this tasty dish.

    Check out this video to see how they trap and cook shrimps:

     
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  2. ochit

    ochit Monkey+

    These are NOT Aborigines never have been never will be and, those are prawns not forkin' shrimp !
    The information is all of the videos are bad to pathetic. Now here is a video.

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  3. ghrit

    ghrit Bad company Administrator Founding Member

    I did not know that shrimp grew in shallow water, but prawns an crawdads do. Also did not now that any of those delicacies were in Australian waters. That "strange way"of cooking them smacks of SEA also, not abo means and methods. Mel, help us out here, where are you getting this stuff?
     
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