FIG. 6 in From folkloric belief to fishery bycatch: contrasting cryptozoological and euhemeristic interpretations of Australian sea serpents

FIG. 6. — String of A, fishing-net floats, which, if nonlethally entangled around an actively swimming animal and bobbing up and down on the water surface might be misinterpreted as the long tail of a presumed sea serpent, especially if the UMO was also pulling a "mane" of intertwined fishing-net and accumulations of seaweed or other natural or anthropogenic debris; B, cork pieces used to buoy a gillnet;C, wooden casks used to suspend a purse-seine. Photo credits: R. France (taken at Battle Harbour National Historic District, Battle Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador [A]; Cape Ann Museum, Massachusetts [B]); nineteenth-century illustration reproduced from France 2019a [C].