Indigenous Fish Traps & Fish Weirs on the Darling (Baaka) River, Sarah Martin & Badger Bates

The Murray Darling Basin Water Cultures Network was created in 2022 to foster a community of people with an interest in the Basin to disseminate scholarship and create collaborative partnerships. The Network's inaugural public lecture, ‘Indigenous Fish Traps and Fish Weirs on the Darling (Baaka) River’ was presented on Tuesday 21 February 2023 by Sarah Martin, Badger Bates, Hubert Chanson, Duncan Keenan-Jones and Michael Westaway.
This lecture outlines a new study about Barkandji fish trap and fish weir technologies and practices of fishing and river management. NSW water policy could see new water storage weirs built to meet the needs of irrigators, graziers and towns, and in doing so, they could damage remaining fish traps and weirs and related cultural practice. This lecture is based off of a recent article published in the journal Archaeology in Oceania by the presenters, accessible here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
This lecture was hosted by Griffith University's Australian Rivers Institute on behalf of the Water Cultures Network. The Network acknowledges funding from the Australian Research Council and the Murray Darling Basin Authority. For more information on the Network, or to join the Network's mailing list, please see the Network's website: www.griffith.edu.au/australia.... The Centre for Environmental History's Ruth Morgan and Jess Urwin are researchers engaged in the Water Cultures of the Murray Darling Basin project.

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