turn over the sediments of the tidal flats, and not significant
differences in shape could be found among the mud octopus
shovels in Gyeonggi Bay area (Fig. 10).
Ggeurengi
Ggeurengi are used in collecting hard clams from sandy tidal
flats. The clams get caught on the bottom metal part as the
fishermen drive ggeurengi over the tidal flat. This bottom part
is the most essential part of ggeurengi, and it can be adjusted to
suit the specific characteristics of getbatang and the depth of
the mud that clams live in. It is a bit difficult to use, so there
are not very many people who could use it properly in Daebu
Island. The hard clam population is not very high in Daebu
Island, so it does not seem to have been the main source of
the fishermen’s income, but they are still sold for higher price,
so a lot of fishermen envy those who can use ggeurengi
(Fig. 11).
Containers
The smaller-mesh baskets are called ‘jongtaegi’ and the larger
mesh rucksack ones are called ‘mangtaegi’. One would usually
place clams that he/she collected in jongtaegi first, and then
later move them into mangtaegi. In the past, both jongtaegi
and mangtaegi were made of hay, but since nylon strings were
introduced, people started making them with nylon strings, for