Pebbles
12-21-2009, 07:53 AM
History of fishing
I am going to put this up in several posts. It is about the history of fishing and covers from Pre history to recreational history. Thought you might enjoy reading it.
Fishing is the activity of catching fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish). It has a history of over 35,000 years and may be an individual necessity or a collective undertaking involving large groups of men. Since the 16th century fishing vessels have been able to cross oceans in pursuit of fish and since the 19th century it has been possible to use larger vessels and in some cases process the fish on board. Fish are normally caught in the wild (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_fisheries). Techniques (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_techniques) for catching fish include hand gathering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gathering_seafood_by_hand), spearing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearfishing), netting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_net), angling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angling) and trapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_trap).
The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_animal) such as shellfish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellfish), cephalopods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod), crustaceans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean), and echinoderms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderm). The term is not usually applied to catching aquatic mammals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_mammal), such as whales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whales), where the term whaling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling) is more appropriate, or to farmed fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farm). In addition to providing food, modern fishing is also a recreational sport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_fishing).
According to FAO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO) statistics, the total number of fishermen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman) and fish farmers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farm) is estimated to be 38 million. Fisheries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheries) and aquaculture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture) provide direct and indirect employment to over 500 million people.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-0) In 2005, the worldwide per capita consumption of fish captured from wild fisheries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_fisheries_of_the_world) was 14.4 kilograms, with an additional 7.4 kilograms harvested from fish farms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farm).[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-1)
[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_fishing&action=edit§ion=1)] Prehistory
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Metkrok_av_ben_fr%C3%A5n_sten%C3%A5ldern%2C_funnen _i_Sk%C3%A5ne.jpg/80px-Metkrok_av_ben_fr%C3%A5n_sten%C3%A5ldern%2C_funnen _i_Sk%C3%A5ne.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metkrok_av_ben_fr%C3%A5n_sten%C3%A5ldern,_fun nen_i_Sk%C3%A5ne.jpg) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metkrok_av_ben_fr%C3%A5n_sten%C3%A5ldern,_fun nen_i_Sk%C3%A5ne.jpg)
Stone Age Fish hook (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_hook) made from bone.
Fishing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing) is an ancient practice that dates back at least to the Upper Paleolithic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Paleolithic) period which began about 40,000 years ago.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-2)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-3) Isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains of Tianyuan man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianyuan_man), a 40,000 year old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish.[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-4)[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-5) Archaeological features such as shell middens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden),[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-6) discarded fish bones and cave paintings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting) show that sea foods were important for survival and consumed in significant quantities. During this period, most people lived a hunter-gather lifestyle and were, of necessity, constantly on the move. However, where there are early examples of permanent settlements (though not necessarily permanently occupied) such as those at Lepenski Vir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepenski_Vir), they are almost always associated with fishing as a major source of food.
Spearfishing with barbed poles (harpoons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon)) was widespread in palaeolithic times.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-7) Cosquer cave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosquer_cave) in Southern France contains cave art over 16,000 years old, including drawings of seals which appear to have been harpooned.
The Neolithic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic) culture and technology spread worldwide between 4,000 and 8,000 years ago. With the new technologies of farming and pottery came basic forms of all the main fishing methods that are still used today.
In the time epoch 7500 to 3000 years before present, Native Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas) of the California coast were known to engage in fishing with gorge hook and line tackle.[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-8) In addition, some tribes are known to have used plant toxins to induce torpor in stream fish to enable their capture.[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-9)
Copper harpoons were known to the seafaring Harappans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harappa)[11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-10) well into antiquity.[12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-11) Early hunters in India include the Mincopie people, aboriginal inhabitants of India's Andaman and Nicobar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_and_Nicobar) islands, who have used harpoons with long cords for fishing since early times.[13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-12)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing
I am going to put this up in several posts. It is about the history of fishing and covers from Pre history to recreational history. Thought you might enjoy reading it.
Fishing is the activity of catching fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish). It has a history of over 35,000 years and may be an individual necessity or a collective undertaking involving large groups of men. Since the 16th century fishing vessels have been able to cross oceans in pursuit of fish and since the 19th century it has been possible to use larger vessels and in some cases process the fish on board. Fish are normally caught in the wild (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_fisheries). Techniques (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_techniques) for catching fish include hand gathering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gathering_seafood_by_hand), spearing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearfishing), netting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_net), angling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angling) and trapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_trap).
The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_animal) such as shellfish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellfish), cephalopods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod), crustaceans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean), and echinoderms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderm). The term is not usually applied to catching aquatic mammals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_mammal), such as whales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whales), where the term whaling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling) is more appropriate, or to farmed fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farm). In addition to providing food, modern fishing is also a recreational sport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_fishing).
According to FAO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO) statistics, the total number of fishermen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman) and fish farmers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farm) is estimated to be 38 million. Fisheries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheries) and aquaculture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture) provide direct and indirect employment to over 500 million people.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-0) In 2005, the worldwide per capita consumption of fish captured from wild fisheries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_fisheries_of_the_world) was 14.4 kilograms, with an additional 7.4 kilograms harvested from fish farms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farm).[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-1)
[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_fishing&action=edit§ion=1)] Prehistory
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Metkrok_av_ben_fr%C3%A5n_sten%C3%A5ldern%2C_funnen _i_Sk%C3%A5ne.jpg/80px-Metkrok_av_ben_fr%C3%A5n_sten%C3%A5ldern%2C_funnen _i_Sk%C3%A5ne.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metkrok_av_ben_fr%C3%A5n_sten%C3%A5ldern,_fun nen_i_Sk%C3%A5ne.jpg) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metkrok_av_ben_fr%C3%A5n_sten%C3%A5ldern,_fun nen_i_Sk%C3%A5ne.jpg)
Stone Age Fish hook (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_hook) made from bone.
Fishing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing) is an ancient practice that dates back at least to the Upper Paleolithic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Paleolithic) period which began about 40,000 years ago.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-2)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-3) Isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains of Tianyuan man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianyuan_man), a 40,000 year old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish.[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-4)[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-5) Archaeological features such as shell middens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden),[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-6) discarded fish bones and cave paintings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting) show that sea foods were important for survival and consumed in significant quantities. During this period, most people lived a hunter-gather lifestyle and were, of necessity, constantly on the move. However, where there are early examples of permanent settlements (though not necessarily permanently occupied) such as those at Lepenski Vir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepenski_Vir), they are almost always associated with fishing as a major source of food.
Spearfishing with barbed poles (harpoons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon)) was widespread in palaeolithic times.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-7) Cosquer cave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosquer_cave) in Southern France contains cave art over 16,000 years old, including drawings of seals which appear to have been harpooned.
The Neolithic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic) culture and technology spread worldwide between 4,000 and 8,000 years ago. With the new technologies of farming and pottery came basic forms of all the main fishing methods that are still used today.
In the time epoch 7500 to 3000 years before present, Native Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas) of the California coast were known to engage in fishing with gorge hook and line tackle.[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-8) In addition, some tribes are known to have used plant toxins to induce torpor in stream fish to enable their capture.[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-9)
Copper harpoons were known to the seafaring Harappans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harappa)[11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-10) well into antiquity.[12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-11) Early hunters in India include the Mincopie people, aboriginal inhabitants of India's Andaman and Nicobar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_and_Nicobar) islands, who have used harpoons with long cords for fishing since early times.[13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing#cite_note-12)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fishing