Wisdom of the Ages “All men are equal before fish” – Herbert Hoover But all fish are not created equal. This and more fish wisdom has been passed on over a period of time, through the ages; each passing generation discovers new things about marine life, with the oceans, seas, rivers and lakes opening up a little more to reveal further secrets. The oceans and seas still hide a lot of marine secrets in their depth Seafood has been part of human diets since the beginning of time; shellfish like mussels…
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Net To Net – A Brief History of Seafood – Part 2
The Beginnings Of Aquaculture Aquaculture [/ˈakwəkʌltʃə/] – [noun] The rearing of aquatic animals or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food. The farming of fish is said to have begun as early as 3500 BCE in China. The Chinese used to farm carp, a fish native to China, in freshwater ponds on silk farms. The monsoon would result in the waters from the rivers entering paddy fields and the surrounding irrigation ponds, these waters would bring with them common fish like carp. Over a period of time, the Chinese must’ve…
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Very early, in our evolutionary history, we turned to marine animals to provide us with nourishment. Archaeological excavations suggest that early humans ate mussels during prehistoric times. Mussels Stone Age Man – Fish was a part of their diet The invention and use of tools and technologies, in a simplistic way, defines one hypothetical archaeological period of human civilization from another, the Paleolithic Age (old stone age) – Mesolithic (middle stone age) – Neolithic Age (new stone age) – Bronze Age – Iron age- and Modern Age. The main challenges…
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