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In this history of sportfishing - much less sport but as sustenance - archaeologist and best-selling creator Brian Fagan argues that sportfishing was an indispensable and often forgotten aspect in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to permit cities, nations, and empires to grow, but it have so with another type of emphasis. Where agriculture encouraged stability, fishing demanded motion. It frequently required a search for new and better sportfishing grounds; its technology, centered on ships, facilitated motion and breakthrough; and seafood themselves, when dried and salted, were the perfect food - compact, healthy, and long-lasting - for merchants, travelers, and conquering armies. This history of the long interaction of humans and seafood trips archaeological sites worldwide showing listeners how sportfishing fed human settlement deal, rising social complexity, the development of cities, and eventually the modern world.
