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When Did People Start Using Nets To Catch Fish in the USA

(The Paleolithic period was approximately 2.5 million to 12,000 years ago.) He says ancient fishers from about 29,000 years ago would have used the sinkers—rounded rocks with a central groove—to hold ropes or nets underwater to trap fish. How did people fish in the 1900s? By the early 1900s, fishing rods were now made with…