捕鱼是猎取自然界现成的水生动物作为食物来源的古老生产部门之一,是一种掠夺性的摄取经济。根据考古资料判断,人类的捕鱼活动大概出现在旧石器时代中晚期。恩格期对人类这一生产部门的出现有过这样的论述“自从有了这种新的食物以后,人们便不受气候和地域的限制了;他们沿着河流和海岸,甚至在蒙昧状态中可以散布在大部分地面了。”在原始社会中捕鱼经济始终具有重要的意义。在农业和畜牧业产生以前,采 Fishing is one of the ancient production units that hunt off the ready-made aquatic animals in nature as a source of food, a predatory uptake economy. Judged by archaeological data, human fishing activities probably occurred in the mid-late Palaeolithic. Engel’s accounts of the advent of the productive sector of mankind have given rise to the notion that since the beginning of this new food, people were not clouded by climate and geography; they walked along rivers and coasts, even in ignorance It can spread over most of the ground. "The fishing economy has always had an important meaning in primitive society. Before the emergence of agriculture and animal husbandry, mining