>  >Without nets and fishhooks and in dry areas the amounts would have been
>  >very low, I think.

throw saponin-bearing plants into the water. wait a bit. collect the fish
that float to the top.
throw spear into water. collect fish on the end of it.
set up fish traps. collect fish.
go for a walk along the beach. collect as many tons of shellfish as you like
on the rocks.
go out in a boat. collect some of the thousand tons of herring roe floatng
on the water.

life's a breeze in paleo times
aborigines here were perplexed by white man's stupendous exertions in
planting crops

andrew