History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c28.13

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The Maria Gonds (Grigson, 1938) use horns as hooks to catch fish. The Sakai of Malay-Peninsula ( Skeat and Blagden, 1906) use curved thorns of rattan (Calammus).as fish hooks. Fishing by gorge-hooks is, however, practised in the case of Koi (Anabas) fishes in paddy fields of East Bengal. It is probably one of the local indigenous methods as it is not prevalent in West Bengal.