The history of aquaculture /

• Main Author: Nash, Colin E.
• Corporate Authors: U.S. Aquaculture Society, Pacific Aquaculture Caucus, Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Subjects: Aquaculture > History.; Aqüicultura > Història.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.; Aquaculture.; Electronic books.; Llibres electrònics.; History.

Aquaculture has become of the fastest growing segments of agriculture around the world, but until recently many people have been unaware of its existence. The practice of raising fish is centuries old with a rich history of techniques and scientific advances. The History of Aquaculture traces the de...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• Fish and Shellfish as Food
• Seeds in Antiquity (2000 to 500)
• Subsistence Farming through the Middle Ages (500₆1450)
• The Slow Dawn of Science (1450₆1900)
• The Roots of Modern Aquaculture (1750₆1880)
• Farming the Sea (1880₆1920)
• Fifty Lost Years (1900₆1950)
• Aquaculture in a World at War (1935₆1945)
• Postwar Pioneering (1950₆1970)
• Uncontrolled Expansion (1965₆1975)
• The Rise of the Institutions (1970₆1980)
• Building Global Capacity (1980₆2000)
• Modern Times (Twenty-First Century)
• Appendix
• End Note
• Index.
• Fish and shellfish as food
• Seeds in antiquity (2000 BC to AD 500)
• Subsistence farming through the Middle Ages (500-1450)
• The slow dawn of science (1450-1900)
• The roots of modern aquaculture (1750-1880)
• Farming the sea (1880-1920)
• Fifty lost years (1900-1950)
• Aquaculture in a world at war (1935-1945)
• Postwar pioneering (1950-1970)
• Uncontrolled expansion (1965-1975)
• The rise of the institutions (1970-1980)
• Building global capacity (1980-2000)
• Modern times (twenty-first century).