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  2. Fishing techniques - Wikipedia

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    Fishing techniques include hand-gathering, spearfishing, netting, angling and trapping. Recreational, commercial and artisanal fishers use different techniques, and also, sometimes, the same techniques. Recreational fishers fish for pleasure or sport, while commercial fishers fish for profit.

  3. Otter fishing - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese reputedly learned the techniques from the fishermen of Southeast Asia. In India, otter fishing was practiced in the Indus and Ganges river basins, in Bengal and in South India along the Coromandel Coast. [2] [3] Otter fishing was known in Europe from as early as the 16th century. The Scandinavians trained otters for catching trout.

  4. Spearfishing - Wikipedia

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    Spearfishing. Spearfishing is fishing using handheld elongated, sharp-pointed tools such as a spear, gig, or harpoon, to impale the fish in the body. It was one of the earliest fishing techniques used by mankind, and has been deployed in artisanal fishing throughout the world for millennia.

  5. Fish trap - Wikipedia

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    A fish trap is a trap used for catching fish and other aquatic animals of value. Fish traps include fishing weirs, cage traps, fish wheels and some fishing net rigs such as fyke nets. [ 1 ] The use of traps are culturally almost universal around the world and seem to have been independently invented many times.

  6. Angling - Wikipedia

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    Angling with a rod. A young angler who has successfully hooked a black crappie in the mouth. Angling (from Old English angol, meaning "hook") is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated via a fishing rod, although rodless techniques such ...

  7. History of fishing - Wikipedia

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    Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back at least to the Upper Paleolithic period which began about 40,000 years ago. [4][5] Isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains of Tianyuan man, a 40,000-year-old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish. [6][7] Archaeological features such as shell middens ...

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