Fish post in cove Jelenšćica
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Fish post in cove Jelenšćica
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Klasifikacija prema RKD
Vrsta baštine
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Opis
Jelenšćica Cove marked the border between the medieval communes of Mošćenice and Brseč, and thus the border between the Kastav and Pazin estates. The steep terrains in its hinterland are owned by the inhabitants of the village of St. Helena, called Opaćari, who once used them to graze sheep. The cove was also used for cooking sea salt in special shallow pots. Jelenšćica was also a good fishing post, so the people of St Helena primarily used it for fishing, as evidenced by the stone fishing huts (barracks) built to store fishing tools, nets and boats that were pulled ashore after use. Most of them fished for their own needs and one of the few professional fishermen of the first half of the last century was Mate Barković Brivačić, who kept complete equipment for fishing at night under lights in Jelenšćica. He had a trawler boat on which a seine net was loaded, and two small boats with large lamps (lanterns, candles). Fishing was performed in such a way that the smaller boats with lights would set sail first to attract and gather the fish to the light, and then take it to the neighbouring cove Uboka where the sea was deep enough for the net. Then they surrounded the fish with a net from the trawler and pulled it out of the sea. During the winter, sprat was mostly caught, and in other months, sardines, sea bass, Atlantic mackerel, Pacific mackerel, scomber, bonito and tuna. In the summer, bony fish were also caught (horse mackerel, seabream, salema, bogue...).
