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Ravi Fisheries

Archaeologist William Belcher looks at fish and fishing practices on the Ravi River today and relates them to what we know about osteology in ancient Indus times. Fishing was a key ecological and nutritional component of life then as it is now.

1. Fish Bone/Wallago Attu Mandible/Dentary in Situ at Harappa
2. Environments – Satellite Image from Google
3. Various Carp, Family Cyprinidae
4. Mystus Aor, Catfish, Family Siluridae
5. Wallago Attu, Catfish, Family Siluridae
6. Bagarius Bagarius Catfish, Family Sisoridae
7. Spiny Eels, Family Mastacembelidae
8. Cast Nets
9. Seine Nets
10. Clay Net Weights
11. Fish traps
12. Monsoonal Flooding and Oxbow Lakes
13. Getting the Fish to Market
14. Fish Markets
15. Fisher Folk – Baba Yaqoob
16. Fisher Folk - Gulam Mustafa

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