found: Work cat.: 2007025278: Connoway, J.M. Fishweirs, c2007:ECIP galley ("a fishweir is a dam or fencelike structure usually built in a flowing stream to funnel fish into a trap or built in a tidal flat to trap fish behind it as the tide goes out"; "geographically widespread and economically important to many, if not most, early societies")
found: Alaska Fish and Wildlife News, WWW site, viewed June 20, 2007(fishweir; "Fish weirs have been used to capture fish since prehistoric times. A weir, essentially a fence placed in flowing waters, directs the movement of fish.")
found: Britannica online, viewed June 20, 2007(fish weir; "game-gathering device"; "in some areas [of the Eastern Archaic] fish weirs were built")
found: Web. Online, viewed June 20, 2007(fish weir; "traplike arrangement of fences in which the fish or other prey enter a catching chamber from which escape is difficult, especially when the way out of the trap is secured by a non-return device;" "fish trap")
