Gill Net Fishing in Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation

[@RichyParton]

It’s so wonderful to see the knowledge passed onto the younger and older generations. So much more that is learnt than the subject in hand. Real food and self development. This knowledge and guidance is lovely to see happening in this world. Thank you for making this video for the world to see. I’d love to come and learn too on day. Very sacred, very special. ❤

[@charlesleblanc6638]

That was quite interesting and informative and well worth watching, thanks .. To all my relations.

[@fordforlife1416]

there is no traditional way of gill net fishing. there was no snowmobiles, no ice augers, and no gill nets. this is not traditional

[@AdmiralLobeam]

Fishing nets have been used widely in the past, including by stone age societies. The oldest known fishing net is the net of Antrea, found with other fishing equipment in the Karelian town of Antrea, Finland, in 1913. The net was made from willow, and dates back to 8300 BC. Recently, fishing net sinkers from 27,000 BC were discovered in Korea, making them the oldest fishing implements discovered, to date, in the world. The remnants of another fishing net dates back to the late Mesolithic, and were found together with sinkers at the bottom of a former sea. Some of the oldest rock carvings at Alta (4200-500 BC) have mysterious images, including intricate patterns of horizontal and vertical lines sometimes explained as fishing nets. Indians on the Columbia River wove seine nets from spruce root fibers or wild grass, again using stones as weights. For floats they used sticks made of cedar which moved in a way which frightened the fish and helped keep them together. With the help of large canoes, pre-European Maori deployed seine nets which could be over one thousand yards long. The nets were woven from green flax, with stone weights and light wood or gourd floats, and could require hundreds of men to haul. We make nets that are really more accurately called "traps" out of thin tree branches and catch fish through the ice with them all winter long.