1 oct. 923 - Fish hooks appeaer between Port Stephens and the NSW-Victorian border

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Fish hooks appeared in the archaeological record along the eastern Australian coast between Port Stephens and the NSW-Victorian border.

In Sydney, mahn (Gadigal fisherwomen) fished with a bara (hook), garridjun (line) and ngamul (sinker made from stone). They fished day and night from nawis ( canoes), catching wurridal (mullet),yarramarra (bream), wulumay (snapper), badiwa (Flat Head), baludarri (Leather Jacket) and wugara (Perch) when out on the harbour. Girls learned magari (to fish) as they grew, learning the fishing places, songs, how to burley with chewed cockle and how to lure and snag a magura (fish).

A very important part of learning to become a mahn was how to make your bara from the cheek of a turban shell using stone fish hook files. Turban shell’s reflective surface acts as a lure for the fish. Fishing line was spun from long strips of kurrajong bark and socked in a solution made from the red bloodwood tree it fraying.

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