The timing of the foraging and hunting cyclea depended on the seasons.
Men would fish beyond the shores for Black spinefoot, parrot fish, dugong, turtle and crayfish, or shot the Torresian pigeons (goeinau) using a variety of weapons: wap (harpoon spear, such as the thoelu wap fashioned from bloodwood), amu (rope), gabagaba (a club with a round stone head).