Last week the Year 7s had an excursion to the ancient Oyster Harbour Fish Traps. The students met Menang Elder Aunty Vernice Gillies and learnt about the Fish Traps and surrounding area. Oyster Harbour is in the traditional lands (boodjar) of the Menang Noongar people and is known as Miaritch – which refers to the meeting place of the Warrecoolyup (King) and Kalganup (Kalgan) rivers, and also a meeting place of the Menang people. It is also known as the ‘home of all the fishing traps’, or mungas, with the land area adjacent to the traps known as Tamungup. Today there remains eight fish traps on the northern shoreline of the harbour which are under the protection of local Menang people.