NOT SUBBED/CONSULTATION TBC From the Mer Island in the Torres Strait to Cape Barren Island in the Bass Strait, spear fishing is a common way of gathering food in rivers, waterholes and oceans around the continent.
To be successful, it requires an understanding of how the refraction and reflection of light can change the apparent position of the fish.
On the mainland, along the country’s longest river, known today as the Murray River, men use technology and skills that allows them to catch two metre-long cod fish from bark canoes using technology.
In the Ngurunderi dreaming story of the Ngarrindjeri people, as law giver Ngurunderi travels down a small stream looking for his two wives, a giant cod fish named Ponde widens the banks with sweeps of his tail, and Ngurunderi tries to spear him, forming the landscape that exists today.