Kite-fishing involves a kite and cordage, the first length of which serves as a kite-line and the second as a combined tail and fishing line. Illustration: Panorama of Ternate, published in the account of the ‘Second Voyage’ under J. (In addition to kite-fishing the Ternate panorama also offers the earliest depiction in European sources of flying a plane kite). The panorama of Ternate is the earliest record of kite-fishing in European literature. It is quite common that such depictions of coastal towns and roadsteads show, scattered upon the waters, a number of native craft.Īmong the boats is one illustrating a fishing technique which has been specific to Indonesian waters (and to the Moluccas in particular), to the Caroline Islands and parts of the Southwest Pacific, namely kite-fishing. The account of the first Dutch visit to the Moluccas in the summer of 1599 includes a panorama of Ternate. Picture: Kite-Fishing off Pitilu (Admiralty Islands) as photographed in 1908 by H. Finally one caught the webbing in his mounth and with a shout, the old fisherman neatly hooked it in with a hand net.” Apparently intrigued by the tantalizing touching of the surface by the webbing, the fish were jumping for it. Presently there was an agitation in the sea behind the canoe and we could see several fish coming to the surface. As it swung in the breeze we noticed that the webbing just had enough length so that it touched the surface of the sea with every soft fall of the canoe as it rose and dipped.
Off the island the old fisherman gradually played out the kite. “We set out to sea but kept close to the canoe occupied by the two fishermen.
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