One of the earliest depictions of trawling. Mosaic from the 5th century, Bizerte, Tunisia. Credit: Yacoub, M., Splendors of Tunisian Mosaics, Tunis, 1995, Fig. 115.From Live Science:
Overfishing led to shrinking sizes of freshwater fish caught by Europeans all the way back in medieval times. And the real revolution in deep-sea fishing came not with modern day trawlers, but back in the 1600s when pairs of boats began dragging a net between them.
Those are just a few of the facts unearthed by marine historians who want to find out when ocean life populations and natural sizes began to shrink.
The evidence shows that much of the decline took place even before the modern fishing industry really got going.
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