Menai Strait fish weirs
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Menai Strait fish weirs
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The Menai Strait fish weirs are historically important fishing traps used in the fast-flowing tidal waters of the Menai Strait, which separates Anglesey from the rest of North Wales. The strait was particularly well suited to utilising fish weirs. The tidal waters pull huge volumes of water past the coastline with every tide, and the weirs and traps enabled fish to be concentrated into small holding areas from which they can be readily caught. Such methods are thought to have been used from earl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menai_Strait_fish_weirs
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2023-06-24T10:16:19Z
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