Ethnozoology of the Tsou, Taiwan: Fishing    (Fishing with poison)

A man with a torch for fishing. First the torchlight is used to attract the fish and then a net is cast. Tfuya Village. Fishing is exclusively men’s work. As the Tsou territory is a mountainous interior, they fish in the river. Fishing is done as a group or individually. The catches are used for food.

 

 

 

Fishing with a glass-bottomed box and a single-pointed fishing spear. Tfuya Village.

 

 

 

From Segawa's Ethnography, Courtesy of the
SMC Publishing

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