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Fishing was typically practiced on the river Nile, either by nets from a boat, using dragnets from shore or using bow nets in narrow banks of the river. On the other hand, fishing was also practiced as a sport for pleasure. Spearfishing and angling were two types of fishing as a sport that required a lot of patience and skill. [5]
Villa of the Nile Mosaic, Lepcis Magna, Tripoli National Museum, circa 1st century CE. The ancient river Nile was full of fish; fresh and dried fish were a staple food for much of the population. [15] The Egyptians invented various implements and methods for fishing and these are clearly illustrated in tomb scenes, drawings, and papyrus documents.
The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age: Conflict and Cooperation Among the Nile Basin Countries (I.B. Tauris, 2010) 293 pages; studies of the river's finite resources as shared by multiple nations in the post-colonial era; includes research by scholars from Burundi, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Fishing boat on the Nile during boat trip from Esna to Edfu, Egypt. The history of fishing date back to the ancient Egyptians. Egypt can be defined as the bedrock of fishing because the Egyptian civilization at the time has been one of the first to introduce this practice in the world. [1]
An important artifact that speaks to the early history of boat design and ship building was found in the Khartoum Mesolithic layer. A recognizable outline of Nile boat had been cut into a granite pebble. [1] This is the oldest known representation of a Nile boat, and the oldest depiction of a boat that is more advanced in design than a canoe ...
Felucca on the Nile at Luxor. A felucca [a] is a traditional wooden sailing boat with a single sail used in the Mediterranean, including around Malta and Tunisia.However, in Egypt, Iraq and Sudan (particularly along the Nile and in the Sudanese protected areas of the Red Sea), its rig can consist of two lateen sails as well as just one.
An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt, recovered a handful of long-lost artifacts. When the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded the area, UNESCO ...
Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Nile perch (Lates niloticus) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [2]The Nile perch (Lates niloticus), also known as the African snook, Goliath perch, African barramundi, Goliath barramundi, Giant lates or the Victoria perch, is a species of freshwater fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes.