survival fishing.

[Mortblanc]

Always check your local game laws.

I found long ago that anything that is PROHIBITED is usually the best and most efficient means of collecting game or fish.

Game laws are written to make collection of any species as difficult as possible to improve the chance of the species not the success rate of the hunter/fisherman.

Here in the states the game and fish people have some real nice boats with electrodes that hang in the water powered by car batteries. A quick jolt and every fish for yards around comes floating to the surface, not dead, just stunned. They get a quick count of population density and species and in a few moments the fish are on their way.

A resourceful person could have a day of food for the family in only a few moments with a car battery charged by a solar panel.

I also know that fish weirs have been used on small streams since prehistory in North America, Europe and GB. I have mapped several in the streams of east TN back when I was a student. They are a most efficient means of food gathering. I have read of North American Indian children going upstream from a weir and one person standing with a basket at the end of the weir. The children simply chase the fish into the basket. Even children and old people can keep a good supply of food using these methods.

In many societies the children between 6-12 contribute most of the meat protein to the pot while roaming about at play, fishing and collecting chance small game, while the adults are working the fields. The true meaning of "foraging".

I know this was true during the Great Depression of the 1930s. My FIL often talked about having baked robins and potatoes for a meal. The robins were killed with their catapults since they could not afford shells for the guns.

BTW, he spent a year in GB during the war and was very attached to the family he was billeted with, staying in communication with them until his death in 1997.