Kizuki

Japanese: きづき
Kizuki

…Cues for finding schools of fish, such as bird-attached fish, remain important even today, when fish finders have been developed. Fishermen refer to schools of fish as namura, or the corrupted nagura, but in addition to bird-attached fish, they distinguish between namura attached to driftwood, namura attached to sharks (in Kumano, shark-attached bonito schools are called ebisu), and namura attached to whales, such as kujiratsuki. Schools of fish with no particular attachments are sometimes called sunamura (plain schools). …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Kizuki" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…鳥つきなどの魚群発見の手がかりは,魚群探知機が発展した今日でも重要性を失っていない。なお,魚群のことを漁業者は〈なむら〉あるいはなまって〈なぐら〉などというが,鳥つきのほかに,流木などについている〈きづき〉または〈ぼくづき〉,サメについている〈サメづき〉(熊野ではサメづきのカツオ群を〈えびす〉という),クジラについている〈クジラつき〉などのなむらを区別する。特別に何もついていない魚群を〈すなむら(素群)〉ということもある。…

※「きづき」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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