Citations:fire basket

English citations of fire basket

fishing thing

• 1877, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, page 110:

  ... fishing in the river Nagara is carried on every night. The fishermen go out in long boats which at their bows are furnished with fire baskets or cressets. The fish having been attracted by the light from the fires in these, the birds […]

• 1923, Asia and the Americas, page 19:

  ... fish are caught by trained cormorants, principally at night with fire-baskets. By rings tied round their throats, the birds are prevented from swallowing the fish they have taken into their good-sized pouches! […]

• 2003, Ronald Lee Morton, Carl Gawboy, Talking Rocks: Geology and 10,000 Years of Native American Tradition in the Lake Superior Region, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 71:

  ... fishing is a beautiful sight. They fish this way at night and by torchlight, suspending fire baskets from the bows of the canoes, which makes the water transparent to a great depth. We eat some of the fish we catch fresh, but most […]

• 2008 April 15, Otto Gabriel, Klaus Lange, Erdmann Dahm, Thomas Wendt, Fish Catching Methods of the World, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 35:

  […] fish. It is trained to deliver up to its master larger fish which it cannot gulp down […] night fishing when the river is illuminated by torches or fire baskets to […]

• 2019 June 28, Martin Shough, Redemption of the Damned: Vol. 1: Aerial Phenomena: A Centennial Re-evaluation of Charles Fort’s ‘Book of the Damned’, Anomalist Books, LLC, →ISBN, page 264:

  [HMS Caroline] saw some lights near the coast of Korea, which may have been] the method of fishing using fire-lures. In this method iron baskets of flaming material are extended over the water to attract fish for spearing or netting. This is an ancient practice, evidence of fire baskets having been found in Mediterranean wrecks dating to the 7th century. In the Sea of Japan and China Sea areas today fleets of squid-fishing boats use rows of powerful electric lamps to attract the molluscs to the surface (Fig. 161). The same method is used for netting the Pacific saury. In Japan fires used by fishermen to lure fish at night have long been called "Isaribi" (漁火).