1. The Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Carthaginians

The study of fishes, originating from their use as food, must have been one of the first sciences acquired, for there is no other nourishment that nature offers in greater abundance or that is easier to obtain. Thus we see that the most primitive peoples and those relegated to the most barren shores are the ones who depend most on fishes. The Greenlanders, Eskimos, and people of Kamchatka are fish eaters, as are the inhabitants of the rocks of the Maldives and of the arid sandy coasts of Makr..