A Brief History of Aquaculture

In the ancient fishing and hunting period, people used animal horns and bones to make harpoons and darts to catch fish, shrimp and shellfish from rivers, lakes and shallow sea shoals. China about the Shang Dynasty has used pole fishing and fishing nets fishing, the end of the Shang Dynasty appeared fish farming, pond fish farming technology has developed to a very high level. Later, people gradually used oars, sculls or sails as power to enter the fishing boat fishing stage.

After the Industrial Revolution, with the emergence of steam engine fishing boats, modern fisheries began to take shape, so that the coastal, offshore fishing activities rapidly expanded to the outer sea and the ocean.

In the early 20th century, diesel engines began to be used as the power of fishing boats. after the 1940s, fishing boats, fishing gear and fishery machinery, instrumentation and equipment gradually formed a system, so that the fishing technology and equipment is becoming more advanced, coupled with the continuous progress of freezing, refrigeration and fishery processing technology, the level of fishery productivity has greatly improved, leading to the development of fishing ports and fishery markets, overseas and pelagic fisheries have achieved rapid development, and the modern fisheries industry is now in the midst of a new era. The complete system of modern fisheries was gradually formed. after the 1970s, due to overfishing, the traditional fishing resources declined, and the growth rate of the world's total aquatic products production decreased significantly. In order to protect aquatic resources and safeguard their own rights and interests, many countries took measures such as declaring exclusive economic zones to strengthen the management of fishery resources. At the same time, the aquaculture industry has been further emphasized, aquaculture production increased significantly. 1980s, the world's total volume of aquatic products and the trend of sustained growth.