. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 12. FIGURE 8. Aerial photo of Ujae islet, site 5 fish traps features A-C, possible turtle enclosure feature D, wall feature E, and enclosure feature F. Photo taken 7 February 1944. (Bernice P. Bishop Museum negative number CP 117,081.) length of the catchment (Fig. 9). This trap is four times as long and three times as wide as the west coast features of similar form. On Majuro, large schools of the Bigeye scad (Selar crumenopthalmus) are caught in similar traps (personal communication, Laura, Majuro resident,
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 12. FIGURE 8. Aerial photo of Ujae islet, site 5 fish traps features A-C, possible turtle enclosure feature D, wall feature E, and enclosure feature F. Photo taken 7 February 1944. (Bernice P. Bishop Museum negative number CP 117,081.) length of the catchment (Fig. 9). This trap is four times as long and three times as wide as the west coast features of similar form. On Majuro, large schools of the Bigeye scad (Selar crumenopthalmus) are caught in similar traps (personal communication, Laura, Majuro resident, 1994). The Yellowstripe goatfish (Mulloides flavolineatus and M. vanicolensis), which congregates in large schools over sand flats, may also be a species commonly caught in stone traps. Site 5E uses the local topography to aid in directing fish—a similar situation to the type 1 traps. Extending from the shoreline, a low wall was built perpendicular to a ridge on the reef flat, thus forming a three-sided square open to the ocean side (Figs 8 and 10, middle). There is no circular trap as in the type 1 features, while this square configuration may have been used in conjunction with a seine net that closed the fourth side of the trap. The two legs extending from site 5F may have acted to help channel fish to the square enclosure, but the exact function of this feature is uncertain (Fig. 10, lower). It is somewhat similar to the description of Riley's type 3 traps (1987:187). Site 5D is a circular enclosure measuring about 3 m in diameter (Fig. 10, upper). This may have been a turtle pen as similar, but larger, structures have been noted elsewhere in the Pacific on islands with shal-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Press; National Research Council (U. S. ). Pacific Scie
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