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Saillebarde

A man, standing between a trailer and an eel weir, holds a net mounted on a wooden frame with a long handle. Two or three eels are in the net, which is called a saillebarde.

Location: Rivière-Ouelle (Québec)
Date: October 16, 2009
Photo: Judith Douville

In this photograph, Georges-Henri Lizotte is using a saillebarde to lift eels out of the collecting boxes of his eel traps and load them into a trailer. This prevents the fish from being injured. A saillebarde resembles a very large dip net. It is equipped with a long handle.