Hello, I'm the OUTDOOR PROFESSOR from DiscoveringTheOutdoors.com/ Here's your outdoor tip on the history of fishing. Surveys have shown that more than 90 million people participate in outdoor activities each year and more than one third of them fish. It can be argued that recreational fishing is popular, but fishing probably did not start out as a recreational sport. The Paleolithic period is when people were first documented to fish. There are early drawings of people fishing and bones of fish that they consumed have been found. These people’s hunting and gathering styles probably transferred to fishing with a harpoon and spear with which the person fishing would wait patiently for fish to swim near them in order to spear it. There is not complete agreement on the origin or exact timeline of the development of fishing. Most agree that it did originate as a means of providing food. Even fishing as a sport is so old that we can argue about its origins. Egyptian angling scenes o
