Fishing practices and the tidal currents

Majority if not all of the traditional fishing practices depend on tidal currents, which could be oceanic, river, and wind-driven. Creation of stationary fishing gears were product of the fisher folks’ ingenuity. They realize that flood (due to high tide or "taob") bring in a huge supply of fish as they were carried by the current to the fishing gears. During ebb (low tide or "hubas" / "hunas") currents, the fishermen would harvest the fish, crabs or shrimps trapped in these fishing gears.