We think these are holding ponds for trapped fish. Throughout the trap (and in many traps on the coast), are funnel-shaped alignments, with the small side of the funnel facing the in-coming tide.

Pre-Maya hunter-gatherers built the system in Central America in response to a drought between 2200 and 1900 B.C.E., ...

A bird's-eye-view of South America's Yucatán Peninsula has revealed a massive 4,000-year-old fishery in Belize's largest ...

Earthen channels directed fish into ponds that formed seasonally, providing a dietary bounty for Maya civilizations starting around 4,000 years ago.

More than 20 illegal fish traps have been seized from North East ... seen by members of the public in the River Skerne and nearby ponds, which the Environment Agency is monitoring.

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant ...