Spearing fish, Babinda Creek. A man with his two sons are in the water and two women sit on rocks on the far bank.

Eel trap, made from split lengths of vine (cane). Meat is placed into the closed end as a bait and the eels get caught inside, unable to swim backwards and held also by the flow of the stream. Cedar Creek. North Queensland.

 

 

Fishing net made from fibre string fixed between two pieces of vine, which opens out like a scoop. Tully River.

Two men on their outrigger canoe, fishing. Cairns.