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Farming the water because fishing it politely ran out of fish.
means The practice of raising fish, shellfish, or aquatic plants in controlled conditions rather than catching them wild.
from Built from Latin aqua, 'water,' plus culture — the same culture that gives us agriculture, derived from colere, 'to cultivate or tend.' The word simply transplants the farming vocabulary from soil to sea, a 20th-century coinage for a practice that itself is far older — ponds for raising fish were tended in places like ancient China and Rome long before the English term existed.
- global output
- now supplies over half of all fish eaten by humans
- oldest practice
- chinese carp ponds date back 4000 years
- biggest product
- not fish, but seaweed, by total tonnage
- dark side
- shrimp farms have destroyed vast mangrove forests