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- Title
CASTING A WIDE NET: SIMULATED FISHING ALONG THE COAST OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA.
- Authors
BECKETT, NATHAN; KELLEY, RACHEL; MCGANNON, STEVEN; MCKENZIE, DUSTIN
- Abstract
Previous research has highlighted the significant relationship between marine fishing and cultural phenomena, including subsistence choices, paleocoastal migrations, and the growth of complexity. Understanding how past peoples exploited local fisheries is an important pursuit, as fishing is a broad subsistence strategy that includes a variety of techniques associated with different fish taxa, marine environments, and overall caloric return rates. Results of seven netting simulations using a 30-ft. beach seine are used here to compare and contrast mass capture with single procurement techniques in terms of return rates and popular optimization models. In addition, we use these experimental data as a platform to discuss risk minimization, population demographics, micro-nutrients, and technological investment within fishing cultures.
- Subjects
PACIFIC Coast (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States; FISHERIES; SIMULATION methods &; models; FISHING nets; FISHING; FISHES; HISTORY; CHARTS, diagrams, etc.
- Publication
Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology, 2014, Vol 28, p416
- ISSN
0897-0947
- Publication type
Article