Skip to comments.
Deep sea fishing for tuna began 42,000 years ago
New Scientist ^
| November 24, 2011
| Wendy Zukerman
Posted on 11/27/2011 1:20:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-46 next last
A complete shell fish hook from the Pleistocene levels of a cave site at the east end of Timor (Image: Susan O'Conner)
Incomplete fish hook from Jerimalai shelter dated to around 11,000 years ago (Image: Susan O'Conner)
1
posted on
11/27/2011 1:20:30 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: Renfield; decimon; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
2
posted on
11/27/2011 1:22:39 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SunkenCiv
3
posted on
11/27/2011 1:34:16 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
I’ve gone tuna fishing several times. I am amazed that this could be done with just a hook. They dive really low and it certainly is a fight to get them to the surface with a sport rod/reel/fighting chair.
To: SunkenCiv
I’d like to see anybody catch a tuna with THAT.
To: SunkenCiv
and they used exactly what for line???
6
posted on
11/27/2011 2:05:33 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: JoeProBono
7
posted on
11/27/2011 2:06:10 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
8
posted on
11/27/2011 2:14:20 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
9
posted on
11/27/2011 2:19:01 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
10
posted on
11/27/2011 2:24:55 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: momtothree
Not all tuna are giants. Notice the use of "taxa" in the article.
11
posted on
11/27/2011 2:26:52 PM PST
by
Roccus
(POLITICIAN...............a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
To: momtothree
Not all tuna are giants. Notice the use of "taxa" in the article.
12
posted on
11/27/2011 2:27:05 PM PST
by
Roccus
(POLITICIAN...............a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
To: JoeProBono
No hooks needed for that!
13
posted on
11/27/2011 2:27:26 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: SunkenCiv
14
posted on
11/27/2011 2:36:43 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Roccus
I think my heaviest was 118 pounds... you are right. I was comparing the tuna that I caught to all tuna. I still wouldn’t want to pull a 50 pounder up by hand. LOL!!!
To: Roccus
I think my heaviest was 118 pounds... you are right. I was comparing the tuna that I caught to all tuna. I still wouldn’t want to pull a 50 pounder up by hand. LOL!!!
To: SunkenCiv
So....for 42,000 years, men have had to act like they really really enjoy their wives tuna casserole.
17
posted on
11/27/2011 2:50:45 PM PST
by
digger48
To: momtothree
ICBW, but I think even tinker mackerel would fall under the tuna taxa. I’m no biologist, but I do know that they are related to tuna. Also, skipjacks, bonito, and false albacore fall under that taxa and are far short of 50#.
18
posted on
11/27/2011 2:54:38 PM PST
by
Roccus
(POLITICIAN...............a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
To: momtothree
I still wouldn’t want to pull a 50 pounder up by hand. LOL!!! I made my living for a few years working on head boats and commercial pin hooking. Tuna season is how we made it through the winter. When conditions were right and we had them boiling on the surface, we would handline fish up to 80-100#, usually yellowfin or big eye. Longfin were in the 40-50# range. Handlining was much faster than rod & reel and ya had to get 'em while the gettin' wuz good!
19
posted on
11/27/2011 3:12:48 PM PST
by
Roccus
(POLITICIAN...............a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
To: SunkenCiv
No hole or ridges used to wrap a line through. I'm not buying the hook, line or sinker theory. Most likely those are earrings or nose rings.
20
posted on
11/27/2011 3:47:38 PM PST
by
bgill
(The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-46 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
