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History of fishing. Fishing is a prehistoric practice dating back at least 70,000 years. 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.
Cod fishing on the Newfoundland Banks. Cod fishing in Newfoundland was carried out at a subsistence level for centuries, but large scale fishing began shortly after the European arrival in the North American continent in 1492, with the waters being found to be preternaturally plentiful, and ended after intense overfishing with the collapse of the fisheries in 1992.
The mid 19th century was the golden age of American whaling. From the Civil War, when Confederate raiders targeted American whalers, through the early 20th century, the American whaling industry suffered economic competition, especially from kerosene, a superior fuel for lighting. Localities "The whale and its products", c. 1900
History Sketch of Juliana Berners, author of the earliest essay on recreational fishing.. The early evolution of fishing as a recreation is not clear, but there is anecdotal evidence for fly fishing in Japan as early as the 9th century BCE, and Claudius Aelianus (175–235 CE) describes fly fishing in Europe in his work On the Nature of Animals.
15th and 16th century. After his voyage in 1497, John Cabot's crew reported that "the sea there is full of fish that can be taken not only with nets but with fishing-baskets," and around 1600 English fishing captains still reported cod shoals "so thick by the shore that we hardly have been able to row a boat through them."
This claim has been revealed to be false. The Icelandic historian Trausti Einarsson (1987) has discovered that this was a reference to twenty foreign ships fishing off Iceland, as the English and other nations were fishing for cod there by the early 15th century. The first mention of Basque whaling in Iceland comes from the early 17th century.
The full-rigged pinnace was the larger of two types of vessel called a pinnace in use from the sixteenth century. Etymology [ edit ] The word pinnace , and similar words in many languages (as far afield as Indonesia, where the boat " pinisi " took its name from the Dutch pinas [1] ), came ultimately from the Spanish pinaza c. 1240, from pino ...
Fishing in Hornsea was largely concentrated on the Mere from as early as the 13th century. However, a seaborne trade in fishing (and other goods) flourished from the 16th century onwards, with cobles being launched from the beck that drained the mere into the sea. In 2009, the fishery landed over 320 tonnes (350 tons) of mixed shellfish.