|  History
of Fishing - People have been fishing about as long as
they have been hunting. Because people in the Stone Age were fishing
for food, not for sport, they did not feel bad about using easy
ways to catch as many fish as possible as quickly as they could.Mostly
they used nets. You could make nets by spinning grasses, or spinning
wool, or flax. Often men did the spinning to make nets for fishing
or hunting. Then you knotted the strings together in complicated
patterns like macrame to make the nets, and you attached stones
or bits of clay or lead to the bottom of the net to weight it
down (so it wouldn't float), and you attached bits of wood to
the top (so it would float). A group of people would wade out
into the ocean someplace where it was pretty shallow, and when
they were out as far as the fish they would spread out the net,
and walk forward, and then the men on the end would walk towards
each other and close up the net, and they would all carry it back
to the shore. If the water was deeper, you could also fish from
small wooden boats, by dragging the net behind you for a while
and then pulling it up into the boat. This is what Peter was doing
when he first met Jesus, and that is what the people are doing
in the Roman mosaic at the top of this page. By the time of Jesus,
though, people had fished so much around the Mediterranean that
there was beginning to be a shortage of fish. To make up for this,
a lot of fish were already being farmed in artificial fish-ponds.
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