Fish keep, a single section of bamboo which has been split between two knots to form a cage with a bulbous belly bound with string around two internal hoops, each end is also bound with string for strengthening. A doorway is cut between the two hoops in the belly with a gate of similar lengths of bamboo bound with string; two wooden floats are tied one on each side of the gate.
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