Photos of Aboriginal Fishing in the Northern Territory, Australia

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Aboriginal Fishing in the Northern Territory

In the coastal areas of northern Australia, fishing is a passion for young and old and they manage to catch an impressive number of fish, never using fishing rods, but just a line, a hook and some bait. For the bigger fish the men and boys often use three-pronged fish spears with which they are remarkably accurate.

Woman fishing
 
Boy with catfish
 
Caught catfish
 
Butchering a crocodile
 
Arnhem Land hunter
 
Caught a fish
 
Two fish caught
 
Big fish
 
Small shark
 
Spear fishing
 
Boy fishing
 
Fishing with spears
 
Aiming the spear
 
Speared fish
 
A large ray
 
Boy with ray
 
Return from fishing
 
Children with ray
 
Caught a shark!
 
Children with shark
 
Cleaning a shark
 
Boys with fish
 
Boy with shark
 
Boy from Maningrida
 

These photos were mainly taken around Numbulwar, a community on the Gulf of Carpentaria where the Nunggubuyu people are real "People of the Sea" and catch all kinds of fish. But elsewhere fishing is popular too among all ages, along the coast and, inland, in rivers and waterholes.