09-22-2022, 08:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-22-2022, 09:30 PM by Man From Ironbark.)
Thanks for the comment Patty. 
Now about fish traps.![[Image: FMIB_36637_Brewarrina_Fishery.jpeg.jpeg]](https://www.mpra.com.au/uploads/images/Land/FMIB_36637_Brewarrina_Fishery.jpeg.jpeg)
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It has been suggested that these Brewarrina fish traps may be the oldest human construction in the world. The age of the fish traps is currently unknown.
That even the biggest floods did not disrupt the layout of the stones.
Though white man stole many of the stones to build with;
In the 1920s, townsfolk at Brewarrina loaded carts with stones from the fish traps to use for foundations of buildings in the town. A weir completed in the 1970s damaged some of the traps and altered the sediment flows and ecology of the river. Native fish could not pass through the weir’s steep fishway. Despite over 160 years of destruction and loss of traditional management and maintenance, substantial elements of the fish traps and their significance to Aboriginal people survive. Today, Aboriginal people in the region continue to use, maintain and care for the fish traps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewarrina...Fish_Traps
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...protection
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/parks-heritage...brewarrina
Now about fish traps.
It has been suggested that these Brewarrina fish traps may be the oldest human construction in the world. The age of the fish traps is currently unknown.
That even the biggest floods did not disrupt the layout of the stones.
Though white man stole many of the stones to build with;
In the 1920s, townsfolk at Brewarrina loaded carts with stones from the fish traps to use for foundations of buildings in the town. A weir completed in the 1970s damaged some of the traps and altered the sediment flows and ecology of the river. Native fish could not pass through the weir’s steep fishway. Despite over 160 years of destruction and loss of traditional management and maintenance, substantial elements of the fish traps and their significance to Aboriginal people survive. Today, Aboriginal people in the region continue to use, maintain and care for the fish traps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewarrina...Fish_Traps
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...protection
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/parks-heritage...brewarrina
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