Budj Bim senior ranger Greg Shelton, carrying an eel trap
The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is located in the traditional country of the Gunditjmara Aboriginal people in south-western Victoria. It is one of the oldest and most extensive aquaculture sites in the world. For thousands of years the Gunditjmara have used a complex system of channels, weirs and pools to trap eels, fish and turtles.
Short-finned eels (Anguilla australis) were trapped by placing long, funnel-shaped woven baskets in the weirs.
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Leanne Pickett / The Standard
