Traditional Fishing at Aegean,  Izmir   2006 - 2011

A fishing method of thousands of years that continues today in the bays of Izmir in the Aegean. Bag-shaped fishing nets fixed at two points in the sea and controlled at the other two ends on the beach. The fishermen, watching the fish pass from a high place with their eyes, pull the ropes on the shore when the fish come on the net. Sometimes they throw stones around the net to collect the shoals of fish on the net. The fish remaining in the bag-shaped net is then collected by the fishermen who go by boat. This type of hunting is usually for fish swimming in the middle of the water, such as mullets. In the past, olive oil was poured into a small bottle to watch the flock of fish pass by and controlled the oil drip from a rope on the sea. The dripping oil forms a film on the sea and the interior of the sea would look better. Today they use polarized glasses.