indirect fishing

indirect fishing
taking fish by means not involving usual methods such as nets, traps and hooks, e.g. removing fish from eagle nests, taken there by the bird to feed nestlings, in early nineteenth century Hungary; removing fish from pelican pouches by the Sumerians

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