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encañizada

English translation: fishing weir

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Spanish term or phrase:encañizada
English translation:fishing weir
Entered by: Pamela Faber Benitez

07:43 May 10, 2009
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geography
Spanish term or phrase: encañizada
This is a television program on the Spanish coastline. I am aware that this term can refer to a fishing technique, but that meaning does not seem to fit in this context:

Hasta el siglo XIX el nivel del mar continuó descendiendo, momento en el que emergen y se consolidan los cordones de arena. Entonces solamente los frecuentaban los pescadores para acceder a las aguas interiores y a las **encañizadas**, o para salir al mar a través de las golas en épocas de bonanza
Pamela Faber Benitez
Spain
Local time: 06:17
fishing weir
Explanation:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_weir

"In medieval Europe, large fishing weir structures were constructed from wood posts and wattle fences. 'V' shaped structures in rivers could be as long as 60 m and worked by directing fish towards fish traps or nets."

# http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encañizadas

"Las encañizadas se consideran una forma (arte) de pescar bastante antigua, se tiene constancia de su uso por los árabes en la Edad Media"
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William A McNab
New Zealand
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4 +2fishing weir
William A McNab
4cane fence
MPGS
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weir
Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)

  

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cane fence


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DRAE
encañizada.

1. f. Atajadizo que se hace con cañas en las lagunas, en los ríos o en el mar, para mantener algunos peces sin que puedan escaparse y poder cogerlos fácilmente.

2. f. encañado (‖ enrejado de cañas).

:)

MPGS
Local time: 06:17
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
fishing weir


Explanation:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_weir

"In medieval Europe, large fishing weir structures were constructed from wood posts and wattle fences. 'V' shaped structures in rivers could be as long as 60 m and worked by directing fish towards fish traps or nets."

# http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encañizadas

"Las encañizadas se consideran una forma (arte) de pescar bastante antigua, se tiene constancia de su uso por los árabes en la Edad Media"

William A McNab
New Zealand
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
7 mins
agree  David Brown: it says so in my dictionary
31 mins
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Reference comments


39 mins
Reference: weir

Reference information:
encañizada
ES: encañizada
EN: weir
Definition ES: Arte fijo de pesca consistente en un cercado o armazón de estacas, de cañas o a veces de varas, que forman una verja (...). A veces estas armazones se combinan con redes (...). Sirven siempre para cerrar alguna parte de agua en el mar, en alguna albufera o en algún lago, ensenada o remanso, pero siempre de poco fondo, dejando entrar en ella a los peces y recogiéndolos a la salida en trampas de todas clases y de las cuales les es muy difícil poder escapar.


http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/theme/AG/ES/EN/E/1.html

Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
Spain
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 32
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