ANGLING BASKET

ANGLING BASKET
This basket was used by anglers carry the fish that they caught.
The fish would be dropped through the gap in the lid of the basket. And
a leather shoulder strap was attached through gaps in the sides for
carrying it.
This basket usually used for carrying fish or blocks of peat. It is
also the cage used to catch lobsters and other crustaceans. In modern
times it has come to mean a range of types of wicker baskets used by
anglers or commercial fishermen to hold fish or other prey. In the North
Sea herring industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the creel
was a basket used to measure the volume of a catch. The standard
measure were creel which were made in officially approved volumes of
one half and one quarter cran. A cran (Gaelic kræn) was a unit of
capacity used for measuring fresh herring, equal to 37.5 imperial
gallons. An angler's creel is designed to function as an evaporative
cooler when lined with moss and dipped into the creek in order to keep
the catch chilled. Caught fish are inserted through a slot in the top which
is held in place by a small leather strap.
Basketmaking. The Gogodala women of Papua New Guinea earn income
from their making of fishing baskets. The tribes of Jharkhand in India use a unique
local bamboo to fashion sturdy fishing baskets.
Cultural significance. The Dance of Cambodia can involve the carrying
of fishing baskets. The basket stitch on an Aran sweater on the Aran Islands off
Ireland signifies the fisherman's basket and the knitter's wish for the recipient's
plentiful catch.