This site provides the first direct insights into the antiquity of the elaborate fishtrapping and aquaculture system developed by Aboriginal people in the Lake Condah region, and may represent one of the world’s oldest known fishtraps.

Excavations at a large Aboriginal freshwater fishtrap at Lake Condah, western Victoria, Australia, indicate initial channel construction by removal of basalt lava blocks around 6600 years ago, with basalt block walls added to the sides of the channel within the past 800 years.

Dating Aboriginal stone-walled fishtraps at Lake Condah, southeast Australia