The archaeological visibiliry of ancient fishing, rypically carried out by the less privileged social groups in the Graeco-Roman world, is very limited. Research on ancient fishing relies on ayery limited number of pictorial representations - mostly in mosaics, particularly abundant in Africa Proconsuhris, and coins - a few literary texts and a coundess number of scattered references and pieces of evidence, generally difficult to interpret. Among the latter are archaeological remains of fishing gear, very common on coastal sites of the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the Black Sea and the Red Sea, and hitherto little studied by scholar.

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