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Huangbai at Yichang, 2004:
Two people, usually the fisherman and his wife, operate the lift net on
the fishing boat.
Huangbai at Yichang,
2004:
The fisherman is listening to his wife for the rhythm of lifting up and
down the fish net.
Huangbai at Yichang, 2004:
Fishing boats with upliftet wooden frame constructions and nets.
Huangbai at Yichang, 2004:
Lift net operated on the boat. Both, the wooden frame and the net are
seen here under water. The fisherman on the stem end is listening to
the commands from his wife on the bow, to raise the net by a rope
getting the fish catch.
Yichang (30°41’ N
111°17’ E) is located on the Yangtze River, 61 m
above sea
level and belongs to the Hubei Province. The photos about local fishery
were taken on the Huangbai
River / Huangbo stream, which is a tributary of the
Yangtze River. The fishing harbour was about 30
minutes away from the Chinese Sturgeon Garden (30°46’ N 111°18’ E)
when going by bus. The mountain stream, the
Shennong Xi S,
is a further
tributary
into the Yangtze River about 100km only away from Yichang, close to the
city Badong. This stream is also described in greater detail on this
lakeriver-website.
Local fishery in the
Yangtze River basin,
2004:
The lift-net is operated on the fishing boat. Snapshots are
illustrating
the procedure of lifting of the net. The blue arrows indicate
the slow up and down lifting of the wooden frame construction,
respectively. The orange-red arrows mark the direction of pulling the
net up or
down separately.
Local fishery in the Yangtze River basin,
2004:
Getting the fish catch: While the net is lifted up, the fisher woman
takes out the fish from the net (see snapshot 1). The following
snapshots
show how she gets the grass carp from the net and moves the fish catch
into
the storage
place below the removable wooden bottom planks of
the boat (snapshots 2 to 9).
This website illustrates how the lift
nets are operated on the fishing boats. The procedure of
getting a fish catch by the periodic lifting up and down of the net is
described by a series of photos shown in the gallery and the snapshots
in the two pictures above. The yield from lifting up the net about ten
times in one hour was the catch of two fish only. The fish catch on the
second boat, which was also visited for the demonstration of the lift
net, was no better.
Photos of lift nets operated on the boat are further shown for lake Dianchi S and Yangtze River S on this lakeriver-website. Lift nets operated from the shore are also shown for Dianchi. Such shore lift nets are common on the tributaries of the Danube River, in Austria. The wooden flat-bottomed boats, that were commonly used as fishing boats in small basins, are explained in greater detail for the Shennong stream S on this website. Fishing by other nets than lift nets and baiting traps is illustrated for the lakes Taihu S and Poyang S.