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Salazar, Deborah A. |
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Journal of Popular Culture; Spring2002, Vol. 35 Issue 4, p145, 11p, 1 Black and White Photograph, 1 Chart, 1 Map |
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The southeastern United States is a rich environment for the study of folk traditions and folk culture. The folk traditions of the South are currently in a rapid state of change and are vulnerable to cultural loss. Noodling is one folk tradition that has attracted almost no academic or scientific attention. It holds a unique, although not well documented, role in Southern U.S. folk history and continues to be practiced and recognized as a challenging fishing sport. Noodling is thought to be declining in popularity due to the same pressures that have resulted in the loss of other cultural folk traditions, a lack of time spent in the outdoors and a failure to successfully transmit traditional arts from one generation to another. Noodling is the most prevalent term applied to hand fishing, the art of catching fish and turtles with bare hands. The fish most often targeted by this technique is the Flathead Catfish. Buffalo and alligator gar are also sometimes mentioned as catch by noodlers, but are caught less frequently than flatheads. Noodlers are low in number, estimated to comprise Less than 1 % of the fishing population. It is historically reported from most regions of the southern United States that have native catfish species. The technique has been declared illegal today in many states both because of a concern for the safety of noodlers as well as for the stability of fish populations. |
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