STILL BAY NEWS - The South African Heritage Resources Agency declared the Noordkapperpunt Stone-Walled Fish Traps as national heritage site.
These fish traps have been used and maintained by local fishermen and farmers since at least the early 20th century. They are still usable today.
Use and maintenance of the traps resides in the local community, but is gradually being lost.
Research in South Africa indicates that this technology was certainly in use during colonial times, with archival evidence from 1892 onward.
Evidence from archaeological excavations near Still Bay indicates that marine resources were being exploited by the ancestors of San hunter-gatherers as much as 60 000 years ago.
Read more in Thursday's South Cape Forum, as well as online.
ARTICLE: SAN-MARIÉ CRONJÉ, SUID-KAAP FORUM-JOURNALIST
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