{"id":12043,"date":"2022-04-07T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12043"},"modified":"2022-04-18T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:54:18","slug":"trapping-fish-with-giant-penises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/04\/07\/trapping-fish-with-giant-penises\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapping Fish With Giant Penises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/the-genius-of-fishing-with-tidal-weirs-15894\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Nautilus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Genius of Fishing with Tidal Weirs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Native and non-native scientists have come together to counter overfishing with an ancient practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY KATA KAR\u00c1TH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.nautil.us\/sites\/3\/nautilus\/Karath_BREAKER-2.png?auto=compress&amp;fm=png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15896\"\/><figcaption><em><strong>GONE FISHING:<\/strong>\u00a0A fishing weir in the Micronesian state of Yap. The \u201carrow\u201d of stone walls traps fish at high tides. When the tide ebbs, fishermen go to work.\u00a0Photo courtesy of William Jeffery.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seen from the air, the Micronesian state of Yap is a jewel-green archipelago of dense forests patched with taro fields, fringed by mazes of mangroves, and trimmed by coral reefs. And, fanning out from the wrack lines into the turquoise shallows like a frill of beaded tassels is a geometric design of rock structures that are shaped like arrows, beech mushrooms, or penises. The Yapese call these structures\u00a0<em>aech<\/em>, and they are tidal fish weirs, one of the world\u2019s most common Indigenous mariculture tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur\u00a0<em>aech<\/em>\u00a0is called Aechwol because of its luck,\u201d says Thomas Ganang, whose family has owned for generations an\u00a0<em>aech<\/em>\u00a0near the village of Gachpar, off the eastern shore of Gagil-Tamil Island; in Yapese, \u201c<em>wol<\/em>\u201d means \u201cluck.\u201d \u201cWhatever fish I catch inside the\u00a0<em>aech<\/em>\u00a0is a sign of luck. So it\u2019s an \u2018<em>aech<\/em>\u00a0with good luck.\u2019\u201d Ganang, who is 66, fondly recalls how, when he was still a boy, his father, Laman, took him to the\u00a0<em>faluw<\/em>\u2014a traditional men\u2019s house in Yap\u2014to teach him everything about fishing, including how to use\u00a0<em>aech<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/the-genius-of-fishing-with-tidal-weirs-15894\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Nautilus<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Nautilus The Genius of Fishing with Tidal Weirs Native and non-native scientists have come together to counter overfishing with an ancient practice. BY KATA KAR\u00c1TH Seen from the air, the Micronesian state of Yap is a jewel-green archipelago of dense forests patched with taro fields, fringed by mazes of mangroves, and trimmed by coral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}