fish-pot

Traces of natives were observed; and he brought on board with him the remains of a fish-pot, nine feet long, made of strips of Flagellaria indica, but so imperfect and disfigured that we could not readily convince ourselves either of its particular construction or use.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

You'll be telling me next that the fish in the sea are yours, and that I mustn't whiff or lay a fish-pot or trammel. "

The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap George Manville Fenn 1870