needle comb

needle comb
20-30 needles arranged in rows on a wooden board attached to a board. Used to catch eels in Japan at night. When an eel is sighted using lights, it is struck on the head and coils around the pole in reaction, and so can be seized by the fisherman

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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